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Panigiria Near Neoi Poroi
Neoi Poroi is a seaside village with mountain roots: its people came down from Palaioi Poroi, high above the coast at the foot of Olympus, and their feasts are still split between the beach and the stone village their grandparents left.
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May – September
Panigiria run from May to September, and the season peaks at Dekapentavgoustos - the Dormition, on 15 August - when most villages hold their feast. Each programme is set close to its own saint's day, so the list fills late and empties out of season.
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Panigiria Near Neoi Poroi
The beach village was laid out on a plan, with wide streets and squares, from 1976 onwards, when frequent landslides pushed the people of Palaioi Poroi downhill. Its church is dedicated to Agia Marina, whose feast falls on July 17, in the thick of summer, when Neoi Poroi is full of holidaymakers and the tavernas set their tables almost to the waterline. To the south spreads the Pineios delta, a Natura 2000 wetland with hundreds of plant and bird species, and the railway station brings people in from Thessaloniki and Larissa without a car.
The feast that is most their own, though, is up the mountain. In Palaioi Poroi, with the Byzantine church of Agios Georgios on the square and chapels to Agia Paraskevi, the Agioi Anargyroi and the Prophet Elijah, the panigiri of Zoodochos Pigi - the Life-Giving Spring, an Orthodox feast of the Virgin - is held at a spot called Paliochori, at 1,300 metres, on the first Friday after Orthodox Easter. Easter here carries a heavy memory: at Easter 1822 Ottoman forces massacred the people of the old settlement, and those who escaped were hanged at Platamonas. The same village produced Christoforos Perraivos, a fighter and writer of the Greek War of Independence, and down on the shore the landing at Skala Pourlias once loaded timber and charcoal onto sailing boats.
A few kilometres north, Platamonas castle, built by the Lombards after the Fourth Crusade, keeps the church of Agia Paraskevi inside its walls, turned into a mosque in Ottoman times. Agia Paraskevi is celebrated on July 26, and on summer evenings the castle opens for performances of the Olympus Festival. The next day, July 27, Palaios Panteleimonas on the slopes above holds its own feast, so a single week on this coast can take in sea, castle and a glenti - a Greek feast of live music and dancing - in a mountain square.
Common questions
Where can I find panigiria near Neoi Poroi?+
In Palaioi Poroi, with the Zoodochos Pigi feast at Paliochori on the Friday after Orthodox Easter, in Neoi Poroi itself for Agia Marina on July 17, and in the neighbouring Olympus villages through the summer. See the current calendar on Mood.
When is the feast at Palaioi Poroi?+
The Zoodochos Pigi panigiri is held on Bright Friday, the first Friday after Orthodox Easter, at Paliochori, around 1,300 metres up. The date moves every year with Easter.
What does Neoi Poroi celebrate?+
The village church is dedicated to Agia Marina, whose feast falls on July 17, at the height of summer. For this year's feasts and events around the area, see the calendar on Mood.