Monday 15 March 2027
The first day of Orthodox Lent is a public holiday that Cypriots spend outdoors, flying kites and picnicking on Lenten food — olives, tahini, flatbreads, seafood and fresh greens. It is a tradition rather than an organised festival, but visit any park or open hillside and you will see the sky full of kites. The date moves each year with Orthodox Easter, usually landing in late February or March.
Monday 15 March 2027. Green Monday falls 48 days before Orthodox Easter, which is on 2 May in 2027.
Parks, hillsides and picnic spots across the island, Island-wide.
Free entry.
Monday 15 March 2027. Green Monday falls 48 days before Orthodox Easter, which is on 2 May in 2027.
Parks, hillsides and picnic spots across the island, Cyprus.
Yes — entry is free.
Yes. It is held every year, usually in March, and usually lasts 1 day.
The biggest wine festival in Cyprus, running nine days in the Municipal Gardens on the seafront. Entry is €5 for adults (€3 for 13–17s, under-12s free) and the wineries’ tastings inside are free; a wine glass costs €1.50–2.50 extra. Food, music and dance every evening.
The island's home-grown pop culture convention, running annually since the mid-2010s with cosplay contests, artist alley, gaming zones and comic vendors. It is smaller and friendlier than the giant international cons, which makes it easy to actually see everything in a day. Tickets are modestly priced and the cosplay standard is impressively high for a small island.
A Sunday in Agios Mamas, one of the Commandaria wine villages in the hills north of Limassol, where you can watch — and help with — the making of ppalouzes and soutzoukos, the grape-must sweets of the harvest. Live folk music and dancing, a village market, donkey rides and storytelling for children; free entry.
Photo: Kites flying on Clean Monday (photographed in Greece) — Ellywa, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
