Tips

If you find yourself in Paros during the duration of the celebration of the Greek orthodox Easter, it is worth visiting on Good Friday the traditional village of Marpissa, where with the initiative of the residents and of the municipal department, are held, during the procession of the epitaph, reenactments of the Passions of Lord where residents and children of the village take part in.

On Mother Mary’s day in Paros, on the 15^th of August, festivities are also held in Paroikia with fireworks as well as in Naoussa on the eve. From the ninth day from the funeral of Mother May the celebration of the pirates is also held at the old small port with fireworks and music.

If it happens to be on Paros during the period of the carnival, don’t forget again to visit the village of Marpissa, where every year on the last Sunday of the carnival, local carnival is organized with great success, with lots of dressed up people who are gushed into the streets of the village.

In the afternoon of the 25^th of March, day of national celebration, every year torchlight procession is held in Marpissa, where the residents, visitors and children start from the village square holding lanterns and torches and go around the village singing songs which are inspired from the Greek revolution of 1821, a custom which symbolizes the years before the revolution when the children used to go to Secret School at night to get an education.

Because Paros is also an agricultural island and the harvest of the grapes (trigos) at the end of August and of the olive (liomazema) in the middle of November are two agricultural procedures very important for the island and for its peasants, if you happen to be here during these months, it is worth for you too to take part as much at the grape-harvest and at the foot pressing of the grapes, as at the olive-harvest or at least to visit some winery (www.paroswines.gr) or the olive press (Association of Paros – Paroikia and Olive-press Daverona in Naoussa) to see closely how interesting are both of these procedures.