Cosa c'è in programma a Salonicco (Grecia) durante l'anno

Folla al massimo — Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays in Grecia

In gennaio non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: The vardaris (15 nov – 15 mar (di solito)), Christmas and New Year (5 dic – 6 gen)

Affollato — Clean Monday, vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Festività

  Clean Monday

  23 febCarnevaleChiusureAffollato

  Clean Monday, the first day of Orthodox Lent and 48 days before Easter, is a public holiday. Offices and most shops close, families head outdoors to picnic and fly kites, and tavernas serve Lenten food such as seafood, bean dishes and flat lagana bread. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: The vardaris (15 nov – 15 mar (di solito))

Tranquillo — i viaggiatori la descrivono come tranquilla, Independence Day

• Festival

  Documentary Festival

  1–20 mar · di solitoFestival del cinema

  Ten days of documentary screened in the converted warehouses on the port in early March, the city's other film festival and the one that fills its cafes with argument. Fonte ↗

• Festività

  Independence Day

  25 marFesta nazionaleChiusure

  25 March, also the feast of the Annunciation, is a national holiday. Schoolchildren and bands parade through town centres under blue-and-white flags, banks, offices and most shops close, and fried salt cod with garlic sauce is the traditional lunch. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Clean Monday (23 feb), The vardaris (15 nov – 15 mar (di solito))

Folla al massimo — Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) in Grecia

• Festività

  Orthodox Easter

  10–13 aprPasqua e Settimana SantaChiusure

  The city empties towards the villages and Halkidiki for the week and much of the centre closes. The Friday epitaphios processions from the Byzantine churches are the thing to stay for. Fonte ↗

Affollato — vacanze scolastiche in 4 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori, uno dei mesi con il clima migliore

In maggio non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Orthodox Easter (10–13 apr)

Folla al massimo — Thessaloniki Pride, Summer holidays in Grecia

• Festival

  Thessaloniki Pride

  15–20 giu · di solitoAffollato

  A week of talks, film screenings and parties along the waterfront builds to a Saturday parade at the White Tower, the country's second-largest Pride after Athens. Fonte ↗

Affollato — Summer holidays in Grecia, vacanze scolastiche in 7 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Rischio

  Heat over the gulf

  1 lug – 25 agoCaldo estremo

  A closed gulf and a city of concrete make July and August heavy rather than merely hot, and the still nights are the hard part. The waterfront and Ano Poli are where any breeze is. Fonte ↗

Affollato — Summer holidays in Grecia, vacanze scolastiche in 7 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Stagione

  The city leaves for Halkidiki

  1–25 agoVacanze scolasticheChiusure

  Thessalonikis have a coast an hour away and they use it. Half the good tavernas and bars shut for a fortnight around 15 August and the roads out on Friday afternoons are solid.

Ancora in corso: Heat over the gulf (1 lug – 25 ago)

Folla al massimo — Thessaloniki International Fair, Summer holidays in Grecia

• Festival

  Thessaloniki International Fair

  5–13 setSettimana della fieraAffollatoPrenota presto

  The country's biggest trade exhibition takes over the fairgrounds for over a week and has traditionally closed with the Prime Minister's economic policy speech; hotels fill and traffic around the site gets heavy even for visitors with no reason to attend. Fonte ↗

Folla al massimo — Thessaloniki Film Festival, Ohi Day

• Festival

  Dimitria and the city's saint

  1–31 ottFestival delle arti

  A month of concerts and theatre across the city, closing on the feast of Agios Dimitrios on 26 October. Two days later the Ochi Day military parade shuts the waterfront. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Thessaloniki Film Festival

  28 ott – 15 nov · di solitoAffollatoPrenota presto

  The biggest film festival in south-east Europe, ten days at the start of November in the port warehouses and the old cinemas on Aristotelous. Hotel rooms tighten around it. Fonte ↗

• Festività

  Ohi Day

  28 ottFesta nazionaleChiusure

  28 October marks Greece's refusal of the 1940 Italian ultimatum. School and military parades fill town centres in the morning, flags hang from balconies, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Fonte ↗

Affollato — Thessaloniki Film Festival, vacanze scolastiche in 2 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Stagione

  The vardaris

  15 nov – 15 mar · di solitoStagione del ventoRischio

  A cold north wind funnels down the Axios valley into the gulf in winter, clears the air and takes several degrees off whatever the thermometer says on the waterfront.

Ancora in corso: Thessaloniki Film Festival (28 ott – 15 nov (di solito))

Folla al massimo — Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays in Grecia

• Festività

  Christmas and New Year

  5 dic – 6 genNatale e CapodannoAffollato

  Lights and a market along Aristotelous down to the sea, and a city that treats the holidays as an excuse to be out. Nearly everything closes on the 25th, 26th and 1st. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: The vardaris (15 nov – 15 mar (di solito))