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Traditional folk dances and songs performed by the Limassol Folklorist Dance Group during the Summer Cultural Festival the Agios Athanasios Municipality in 1990.

Baking in a stone oven in the courtyard of a house in the populated core of St. Athanasios, "Flaounes" a traditional dish prepared during Easter in Cyprus, whose main ingredient is a Cypriot cheese, eggs and flour.

Stone brick ovens that were in every courtyard in olden times in the village of Agios Athanasios.

Stone brick ovens that were in every courtyard in olden times in the village of Agios Athanasios.

Kάτοικος του Αγίου Αθανασίου που ήταν κωμωδρόμος / σιδεράς, ένα επάγγελμα απαραίτητο στο χωριά αφού εξυπηρετούσε κι άλλους τεχνίτες όπως…

Grinding wheat by the use of traditional stone mills for the preparation “resi” which is a traditional cypriot dish of wheat cooked in lamb broth. People used to sing and dance with the stone mills in their hands. The feast followed the wedding…

Resi is the traditional Cypriot dish of wheat cooked in lamb broth as rice. This was offered to the guest together with other traditional dishes during the feast that followed the wedding ceremony.

Green Monday people in Agios Athanasios used to go out in the fields in big groups and have fun till late in the afternoon. They put the tablecloth on the ground and enjoyed the traditional food of the day, eating and singing all day long.

People used to go out in the fields end enjoy themselves in large groups on Green Monday which is the first day of the fasting period before Easter.

In very old times, drinking water was pulled by residents with bucket cans tied with rope from two wells that were at the two squares (1943) and later by fountains which were built in various parts of the village. In that period, due to the good…