Local Feasts

Throughout the year all Ikarian villages put on feasts to mark religious and some non-religious holidays. Raskos (boiled goat meat), Ikarian wine, live music, fun, folks dancing the traditional Ikariotikos ('Ικαριώτικος') to a song originating in Ikaria, passionately singing along, laughing, hugging...... partying till the early hours! These are Ikarian panygiria (village festivals)!

For a memorable taste of the Ikarian people’s culture and to exhilarate your soul you need to immerse yourself in at least one.

Here’s a list of all of them, where they’re held and which religious feast or other event they commemorate. The list is not chiselled in stone. Usually it’s announced days prior which feasts are actually going to happen.