Folk culture events in the Norhern Zone of the Regional Unit of Serres

KARYDOCHORI

Traditional Products Festival

The festival is held annually in early November. Visitors have the opportunity to get to know, taste and buy fine local products from small producers of the villages in the area. At noon, hot bean soup and vegetable soup is offered free of charge, together with traditional bread from a wood-fired oven and potato salad made from local potatoes. The festival also includes an artistic program with music and songs.

VALTERO

Corn Festival

A two-day festival which includes cultural events, choirs and dances by folklore and cultural associations, while the daily program culminates with a traditional feast. Of course, the absolute protagonist of the events is the locally produced corn, which the visitors can enjoy in all its versions.

ACHLADOCHORI

Krousovitis Festival4

A four-day festival which takes place in mid-July. During this event the locals organize artistic workshops for the young and old, film and documentary screenings, hiking, tea hunting on Mount Orvilos, open assemblies of the locals, speeches, as well as concerts.

PONTISMENO

Ketsekia

A custom, which is revived during the Carnival period and on Clean Monday. It is a popular event, suitable for satire and entertainment. The custom dates back to the Ottoman period and is not found in any other part of Greece. Here, perhaps the most ancient type of lyre in Greece, the “gika”, also survives to this day.