Culture
Patras Carnival
More than 500 cultural events take place in the city every year, including the leading carnival in Europe.
The carnival of Patras is the modern version of the ancient Dionysian Mysteries, one of the most important and most crowded, in terms of active participants, carnival, a group “outburst” of joy, the winter cultural “vehicle” of Patras towards fun. “It ’embraces’ hundreds of thousands of Greeks and foreigners, young people and people of all ages, who pour into the streets of Patras every February, winding their biological clocks in a month-long open-air festival of immeasurable intensity, with parades of floats and hundreds of Hidden Treasure crews, which attracts many tourists from all over the world. The important thing is that the Patras Carnival is not based on the actions and initiatives of artists or associations, but on the actions and initiatives of almost the entire local population.
The carnival has developed cooperative relations with the carnivals of Biareggio, Nice, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Cologne, Tenerife, Visbaden, Osaka, Nottingham, London, Nottingham, and Vienna.
International Festival of Patras
The capital of Achaia is also known for its International Festival, which usually lasts from July to September and makes its Roman Theatre (Ancient Odeon) the centre of important cultural meetings.
The events of the International Festival of Patras spread, with the Ancient Odeon, the Castle, the Pampeloponnesian Stadium, the EOT Square, highlighting important areas of the city centre and offering many emotions to the public, combining all forms of art, music, theatre, visual arts, dance and cinema.
At the same time, a number of bodies and associations are active in the capital city of Achaia, dealing with amateur creation in theatre, dance, cinema, etc.
An important role in the cultural life of the city is played by the Cultural Events Organisation, which organises the Patras Festival every year with a number of theatrical performances.
