{"id":2407,"date":"2026-04-24T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:30:00","slug":"municipality-of-peania-with-respect-to-tradition-the-celebration-of-may-thanasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2407","title":{"rendered":"Municipality of Peania: with respect to tradition the celebration of May Thanasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tradition, arts and history are the basis of this year&#8217;s festive program of the <b>Municipality of Peania<\/b> in honor of its patron saint, St. Athanasius<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>For another year, the cultural institutions of the municipality are keeping a leading role in events that begin on Protomay and conclude on <b>Sunday, May 3.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As the mayor of Peania himself <b>Isidoros Madis<\/b> notes in his message, &#8220;with absolute respect to the tradition of our place, but also to each citizen individually, we celebrate St. Athanasius, with a variety of events and actions for all age groups.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing the successful &#8220;recipe&#8221; of events for St. Athanasius, we have chosen this year to have <b>intense elements of tradition, but also of contemporary art<\/b>, giving a &#8220;platform&#8221; to the associations and institutions of our municipality, thus proving that we are not lacking in people of letters and arts. At the same time, <b>we welcome great Greek artists, enhancing the festive program in the best way<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>The program of St. Athanasius combines the ecclesiastical spirit of our city, the love of its people for culture and our living tradition<\/b>,&#8221; he concludes.<\/p>\n<p>The events open with the presentation of the book <b>&#8220;Ioannis Kapodistrias &#8211; The Other Face of the Governor&#8221;<\/b> by Lefteris Papakostas and conclude with <b>activities for children<\/b> in squares of the municipality, while two concerts are planned:<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, May 1, 2026, at the Central Square of Vas. Nikos Apergis<\/b> performs great hits of the Greek pentagram that we all have loved. He will be accompanied by <b>Alexandra Panagiotaru.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, May 2, <b>Miltos Filos<\/b> will take the baton with <b>Anna Moru<\/b> and their orchestra and welcome &#8220;May Thanasis&#8221; with a great feast.<\/p>\n<p>See the full programme:<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"unnamed-OdeiQ.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186830\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/unnamed-OdeiQ.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"unnamed1.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186825\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/unnamed1.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"unnamed2.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186826\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/unnamed2.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"unnamed3.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186827\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/unnamed3.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"unnamed4.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186828\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/unnamed4.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"unnamed5.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186829\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/unnamed5.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s festive programme of the Municipality of Peania in honour of the Patron Saint Athanasius is based on tradition, arts and history. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}