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Preparing the Cypriot traditional dish Resi
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.
Donkey Races in Agios Athanasios
Traditional custom where donkeys participated in a race with their riders on each one claiming the top spot. Today the event’ s organized within the frame of Easter festivities.
Τraditional “souvla”
People in Agios Athanasios used to organize excursions to the countryside quite often and prepared the traditional “souvla” (pieces of meat cooked on charcoal )and they enjoyed themselves, eating and singing till late in the afternoon.
Green Monday
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.
Cypriot traditional musical instrument PITHKIAVLI
Program performed in Agios Athanasios by the two well known cypriot folklorist instrument players (specialists on playing the Cypriot traditional instrument PITHKIAVLI, a kind of traditional flute) MICHALIS KOULOUMIS and GIAKOUMIS ATCHIKKOS both born…
Traditional folk dances and songs
Traditional folk dances and songs performed by the Limassol Folklorist Dance Group during the Summer Cultural Festival the Agios Athanasios Municipality in 2001.
Traditional cypriot dances
Program with traditional cypriot dances performed by the Municipal Folk Dances group of Agios Athanasios within the frame of introducing and promoting Cyprus dancing culture and tradition to the foreign visitors of the island.
World Music Day
On the occasion of World Music Day Agios Athanasios Municipality honored the folk musician Michalis Kouloumis, a refugee from the Turkish occupied village LYSI who was specialized on playing the traditional instrument “pithkiavli´ in Cyprus. (a…
Traditional cypriot dances
Program with traditional cypriot dances performed by the Municipal Folk Dances group of Agios Athanasios within the frame of introducing and promoting Cyprus dancing culture and tradition to the foreign visitors of the island.
Traditional cypriot dance known as ''Drepani''
«Drepani dance” where the dancer is dancing alone with a sickle (scythe) in hand, performing the characteristic movements of the harvest and stooping down to earth.