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In the centre of Athens, at Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens, there is a magical Christmas village for the whole family. As soon as you pass the entrance of the Christmas Factory, you feel like you are transported to another place. You forget that you are in Athens. All you see around you is Christmas.
Candy shops, dancing, events, toy and candy factories… are all there to take you on a journey.
In particular, the Christmas Factory, has 3 factories: The Santa Claus Factory, The Candy Factory and The Toy Factory. A guided tour and workshops await you at the factories.
At the same time, a number of different events, which take place daily at the Christmas Factory, will fill young and old alike with smiles. Of course, small wooden houses full of sweets and marshmallows are waiting for you to travel to the magical festive atmosphere of Christmas, while the small Luna Park will add a little extra joy. In fact, you can even buy some of your Christmas presents, as you will find lots of nice things to buy.
Interactive festive programmes for children, evening walks in the exhibition halls, Christmas melodies, unique gifts in the shop and sweets in the restaurant will offer special moments to young and old at the Acropolis Museum.
With your festive clothes or your sportswear at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, the change of the year is fun and spectacular this year. It starts classically with the impressive choreographies of the Fountains in the Canal, takes off with the fireworks that light up the sky at the turn of the year and gets us dancing at the first big outdoor party of 2023.
Another great idea to feel the magic of Christmas is to visit one of Athens’ ice rinks to feel like you are in the Alps. You may not be at Lake Weissensee in Austria, which in winter becomes the largest ice rink in the world, but you can feel the magic of ice skating and ice activity here too. At the rink you will definitely feel like you are in another country and you will feel like you are in a magical village where everyone is always happy and carefree.
Christmas villages have been set up in many neighbourhoods of Athens. Santa Claus and his elves will be waiting for you in their wooden houses.
Our little friends can take pictures with Santa Claus, eat sweets, do activities and make crafts. The magic of Christmas is added by, among others, stilt walkers, jugglers, Christmas mascots, animateurs, puppets and magicians.
Thousands of balls, hundreds of thousands of lights, millions of decorations and bags of presents! Flakes of artificial snow, lead soldiers hanging out with leprechauns and reindeer on the sidewalks. All this makes up a unique scene in the heart of Athens. In Psirri. Where Christmas takes shape. In the most fabulous shop in town.
The neoclassical two-storey mansion that houses Little Kook offers sweets, cakes, cupcakes, chocolates and a thousand other things in a very special environment. But what makes it stand out even more is its decoration
The protagonists of the holidays, our children, will have the opportunity to enjoy them more than ever before, through the daily activities for the whole family that will be organized from the beginning of December at the Museums, the Creative Learning Centres, the Libraries, as well as at the Art Gallery, the Arts Centre and the Melina Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens. Workshops in visual arts, music and movement, storytelling, theatrical play, guided tours, museum-educational programs, children’s theater and puppet theater performances, multiply the magic of Christmas.
Melomakarono is a Greek dessert made basically from flour, semolina, oil, orange juice and honey. Like kourabiedes, it is one of the traditional national sweets that are considered essential in every Greek home, especially during the Christmas season. It was popularized as a dessert for the Twelve Days, mainly by the Greeks of Asia Minor. It was also popular as a dessert for the Greek holiday of the Twelve Days.
Melomakarono is a Greek dessert made basically from flour, semolina, oil, orange juice and honey. Like kourabiedes, it is one of the traditional national sweets that are considered essential in every Greek home, especially during the Christmas season. It was popularized as a dessert for the Twelve Days, mainly by the Greeks of Asia Minor. It was also popular as a dessert for the Greek holiday of the Twelve Days.
Kourabies is a typical dessert widely spread throughout Greece, which is classified among the traditional sweets, such as melomakarono, and is usually prepared at Christmas. Its name comes from the Persian Qurabiye, which means biscuit, a sweet made of flour, butter and icing sugar. Asia Minor refugees from the Cappadocian Karvali created Nea Karvali in the prefecture of Kavala in 1924 and transferred the traditional recipe of Qurabiyeh from Asia Minor.
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