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Easter also known as Paska, is considered to be the most important day in Greece traditionally. While Easter is on, it spans almost a weeks time and that week is termed as the Great Week or Megali Evdomada. During the Greek celebration of Easter, you will witness deep devotion and rich pageantry. There are celebrations and the excitement is quite contagious. Prior to the arrival of the festival traditional Greek people keep a fast of 40 days called nisteia as Easter is welcomed with preparation of elaborate meat, milk products and pastries. They are all the more excited because of the restriction they undergo during the fasting period.

You can plan your flights to Santorini during the Easter celebrations. Even otherwise you will get to experience the wonderful aroma of Santorinis wine as well as its culinary culture. The culinary skills are so prominent and hold so much of importance that they make elaborate arrangements to display their skills. A great way of spending your early morning here would be to indulge in some kind of physical exertion in for of hikes and walks. You can hire a mule till the steps leading to the caldera. The weather during the month of April is warm but the evenings are rather cool. The not so hot and not so cold weather is one of the high points of Santorini. The time is perfect for a vacation.

Greeks originally are into charcoal spit used for cooking the whole spiced lamb roasted over on the Easter Sunday. Before dyeing the Easter eggs, people of Santorini have an egg cracking contest to decide as to who has the maximum amount of luck for entire year. Breaking the eggs stands for the Christs breaking out from the tomb.

Easter is the commencement of Summer season for the people and visitors of Santorini but quite ideal for all reasons. Easter is a holiday in Santorini. With Easter celebrations you will also see the red textiles located in the balconies each Monday and Thursday. You will also get to see women indulging in preparation of tsoureki and melitinia. The two dishes are the most sought after dessert cocked especially for the special occasion of Easter. Melitinia actually happens to be the most popular Easter speciality from Santorini. The moment melitinia pastries are made, their smell sight and taste make you forget where you are. They require the assistance of many women. People illuminate the roads of Pyrgos through several oil lamps on Good Friday and depict the union of the two Epitaphs, at the central square in Fira. It is a wonderful place to be during celebration of Easter.