3 Best Performing Arts Venues in Aegina, The Saronic Gulf Islands

Two of the most important festivals held at Agios Nektarios Monastery are Whit Monday, or the day after Pentecost (the seventh Sunday after Easter), and the November 9 saint's name day, when the remains of Agios Nektarios are brought down from the monastery and carried in a procession through the streets of town, which are covered in carpets and strewn with flowers.

On the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, August 15—the biggest holiday of the Christian summer throughout Europe—a celebration is held at Panagia Chrysoleontissa, a mountain monastery built between 1403 and 1614.