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Easter at Leonidio

In antiquity in selected positions on the top of the mountains there were the “fryktories”, which was a system of message transmission at a long distance by using lighted torches.

In antiquity in selected positions on the top of the The tradition says that in this way came the news to Mycenae for the fall of Troy. In the echo of this ancient telecommunication practice the evening of the Resurrection, the residents of Leonidio lit up hundreds of multi coloured large balloons, which leave them to fly on the sky, the moment where the priests chant “Christ is risen”.

The Easter in Leonidio is so impressive that Dimitris Psathas once wrote: “Carnival in Patras and Easter only in Leonidio”.