The City of Athens celebrates Carnival Season with festive and colorful events all over the city, ANA reports
The City of Athens is transformed into a colorful setting spreading streamers and Carnival fun and joy around the city. For this year’s Carnival season, the Culture, Sports & Youth Organization of the City of Athens (OPANDA) together with Technopolis City of Athens, has co-created a rich program of events.
For 17 days, 32 spots throughout Athens will be hosting more than 60 festive activities with free admission to all. The carnival agenda has it all: concerts, music tours, serenades, performances and parades, the revival of traditional Athenian carnival customs, treasure hunt, dancing, satirical songs, tarantella dance sessions, guitars, mandolins, ocarinas, and bass drums along with afro-Brazilian percussions.
The Carnival events program has also provided plenty of activities for kids and families: educational programs and art workshops invite little friends to put on their costumes, explore different materials, experiment with the tradition, create and play leisurely.
The festivities will take off on Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday). On Friday the 28th, Saturday the 29th of February and Sunday the 1st of March, many Greek artists will be entertaining us in a series of some very special concerts under the Acropolis.
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