Kefalonia Events - May 2027
May 2027 puts three feast days into its first four days: Agrilia on the 1st runs into Orthodox Easter on the 2nd and the Themata feast on the 4th, with the union commemorations on the 21st closing the month.
Winter's closure ended on 31 March 2027 and nothing has replaced it. Hours are set by dated notice rather than by a season timetable, so check our opening hours page for the one in force.
For what these days are like rather than when they fall, see what Kefalonia's festivals are like.
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Eat & Drink
Orthodox Easter
📅 Sunday 2 May 2027 — the midnight Anastasi is on the night of Saturday 1 May
The Anastasi at midnight, then lamb on the spit and red eggs through the afternoon of the 2nd — two days that start in church and finish at a table.
📍 Location: island-wide; Sami and the villages
Watch & Listen
May Day at Agrilia Monastery
📅 Saturday 1 May 2027, from 12:00, as last published — the dancing moves to Sami's square in the evening
May Day is spent on the hill at Agrilia with grilled food, wine and an orchestra, and it ends in Sami's square: a panigiri that starts in daylight and finishes in town.
📍 Location: Holy Monastery of Agrilia, Sami
Learn & Do
Themata — Easter Tuesday
📅 Tuesday 4 May 2027
Two days after Easter the Pylaros villages climb to Themata for the monastery's table — meat-and-celery soup first, music and dancing after.
📍 Location: the monastery of the Virgin at Themata, Pylaros
Unification of the Ionian Islands with Greece
📅 Friday 21 May 2027 — the union was proclaimed on 21 May 1864
The Ionian islands keep the 1864 union as their own commemoration, and Argostoli marks it with parades — a civic day in a month of religious ones.
📍 Location: Argostoli