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New Year in snowy Kastoria

New Year in snowy Kastoria
Early in the afternoon of New Year's Eve in snowy Kastoria starts feasting.
Groups gathered in the neighborhoods. They dance and sing along with orchestras traditionally every New Year's Eve gathered in Kastoria.
The brass sound from side to side in snowy town where although the cold is touchtero, residents and visitors are undismayed and fun lights early.

The grids with charcoal, often improvised, hosting pantzentes and skewers that have a field day all day. The celebration in the eve is prangellos for what is to follow in the coming days to Ragoutsaria.
6,7 and 8 January at the famous carnival Kastorianos gives the epilogue of the festive atmosphere of the coming New Year.

Locals start to drink from noon on January 6 and evening stop 8. Dress carnival and along with orchestras tour around the city of neighborhoods resulting in the Bazaar area where traditionally for years collected all the carnival.

This custom has its roots in antiquity and revived every year thanks to the residents of Kastoria who keep alive with passion.

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