Closing ceremony of Patras Carnival

The closing ceremony of patras carnival will take place on Sunday 1 Mar 2009 in the city Patras.

Festivites will last for 2-3 days, starting from friday night, saturday night with the great night parade and sunday morning with the main carnival parade. A city full of dancing people during these days, definetely constitutes a lifetime experience.

Patras carnival

Patras carnival is the largest carnival in greece and one of the largest world wide. The carnival begins on 17 of January each year and attracts tens of thousands visitosr. The carnival of Patras is a variety of events including the “Treasure Hunt”, the large parades in the final weekend of the carnival, balls (bourboulia), carnival of children and others.

Participants join groups, each with different costumes and slogans. All the groups (> 40.000 people) participate in the closing parades and the other festivities. “Keep dancing” is the slogan of patras carnival, and that’s what everybody does.

Patras

Patras is a port city located in the west Greece, in the Peloponnese peninsula. Patras port is a nodal point for trade and communication with Italy and the rest of Europe. Located 218 km west of Athens, it is regularly connected to athens and Eleytherios Venizelos Airport by train and buses. It is also connected by sea to the Ionian Islands and Italy ( Ancona, Venice, Bari, Brindisi ..) . The small araxos airport is located 50 km east of the city.Patras is famous for the Patras Carnival, the largest festival of its kind in Greece, and one of the largest in Europe.

Madonna live in athens

The concert of famous pop star Madonna in Athens, Greece attracted more than 100,000 visitors from greece and abroad during this weekend. The city (of 3.5 million people) was full. 500 hotels and 29.000 rooms hardly managed to accommodate the visitors while the transportation from and to Athens was problematic as well. Those problems aside, the concert in the Olympic stadium of Athens was a success, everybody was happy and hopefully Athens will host more shows like this in the future.