O que acontece em Salonica, Grécia, ao longo do ano

Lotação máxima — Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays em Grécia

Nada novo começa em janeiro.

Ainda em andamento: The vardaris (15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Christmas and New Year (5 Dez – 6 Jan)

Movimentado — Clean Monday, férias escolares em 3 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

• Feriado

  Clean Monday

  23 FevCarnavalFechamentosLotado

  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 ↗

Ainda em andamento: The vardaris (15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Tranquilo — viajantes descrevem como tranquilo, Independence Day

• Festival

  Documentary Festival

  1–20 Mar · normalmenteFestival de 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 ↗

• Feriado

  Independence Day

  25 MarFeriado nacionalFechamentos

  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 ↗

Ainda em andamento: Clean Monday (23 Fev), The vardaris (15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) em Grécia

• Feriado

  Orthodox Easter

  10–13 AbrPáscoa e Semana SantaFechamentos

  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 ↗

Movimentado — férias escolares em 4 dos países que mais mandam visitantes, um dos melhores meses em clima

Nada novo começa em maio.

Ainda em andamento: Orthodox Easter (10–13 Abr)

Lotação máxima — Thessaloniki Pride, Summer holidays em Grécia

• Festival

  Thessaloniki Pride

  15–20 Jun · normalmenteLotado

  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 ↗

Movimentado — Summer holidays em Grécia, férias escolares em 7 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

• Risco

  Heat over the gulf

  1 Jul – 25 AgoCalor extremo

  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 ↗

Movimentado — Summer holidays em Grécia, férias escolares em 7 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

• Temporada

  The city leaves for Halkidiki

  1–25 AgoFérias escolaresFechamentos

  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.

Ainda em andamento: Heat over the gulf (1 Jul – 25 Ago)

Lotação máxima — Thessaloniki International Fair, Summer holidays em Grécia

• Festival

  Thessaloniki International Fair

  5–13 SetSemana de feiraLotadoReserve cedo

  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 ↗

Lotação máxima — Thessaloniki Film Festival, Ohi Day

• Festival

  Dimitria and the city's saint

  1–31 OutFestival de artes

  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 Out – 15 Nov · normalmenteLotadoReserve cedo

  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 ↗

• Feriado

  Ohi Day

  28 OutFeriado nacionalFechamentos

  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 ↗

Movimentado — Thessaloniki Film Festival, férias escolares em 2 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

• Temporada

  The vardaris

  15 Nov – 15 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de ventoRisco

  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.

Ainda em andamento: Thessaloniki Film Festival (28 Out – 15 Nov (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays em Grécia

• Feriado

  Christmas and New Year

  5 Dez – 6 JanNatal e Ano-NovoLotado

  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 ↗

Ainda em andamento: The vardaris (15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente))