{"id":1151,"date":"2024-03-17T20:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelfixme.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2024-03-17T20:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:19:53","slug":"ash-monday-on-the-18th-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"Ash Monday on the 18th of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1157\" src=\"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-17-202140-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"729\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-17-202140-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-17-202140-1024x765.png 1024w, https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-17-202140-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-17-202140.png 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"rTNyH RZQOk BYUog\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@savvas_kalimeris?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Savvas Kalimeris<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/yellow-and-blue-kite-flying-under-blue-sky-during-daytime-UCotbwAnoOw?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ash Monday or Clean Monday is the day after the last Carnival, the beginning of the Great Lent (40 days period) for the Christians and it is celebrated in Greece by going out to the countryside with lots of fishy delicacies to eat, ouzo, wine, music and by flying the kites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1153\" src=\"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sarakostiana-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"732\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sarakostiana-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sarakostiana.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If in Athens on the 18th of March head for the Filopappos Hill (across the Acropolis) where t<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">he Philharmonic Orchestra of the Municipality of Athens will welcome the audience with happy rhythms from 11:00, while at 12:00 the music group &#8220;Charisma&#8221; will take the stage taking everybody to a genuine Greek feast.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1154\" src=\"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Philarmonic-Orchestra-of-the-Municipality-of-Athens-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Philarmonic-Orchestra-of-the-Municipality-of-Athens-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Philarmonic-Orchestra-of-the-Municipality-of-Athens-1024x679.png 1024w, https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Philarmonic-Orchestra-of-the-Municipality-of-Athens-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Philarmonic-Orchestra-of-the-Municipality-of-Athens.png 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Savvas Kalimeris on Unsplash &nbsp; Ash Monday or Clean Monday is the day after the last Carnival, the beginning of the Great Lent (40 days period) for the Christians and it is celebrated in Greece by going out to the countryside with lots of fishy delicacies to eat, ouzo, wine, music and by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelfixme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}