May Day has its place of honor in many municipalities of Attica, which will be flooded with flowers and spring colors. Exhibitions with gardens, events, festivals and concerts come to motivate the citizens to enjoy the day and make their May Day wreath. Even floriculture workshops have been organized, for children and adults.

In fact, because this year May Day is “stuck” on the weekend, several municipalities of Attica are taking advantage of this for a series of events during the three days and among them is Nea Philadelphia, a city that the Athenians traditionally visited on this day.

So the municipality of Nea Philadelphia-Nea Chalkidona organized a “full” cultural three-day event, including events and activities for citizens and visitors, as well as concerts in the central square. New Philadelphia’s Grove comes alive for children, with a “battlefield” for play and a Gardening Workshop, so they can plant seasonal plants, learn about their care and receive their own flower pot.

On May Day, there is also a May Day Wreaths and Gardening Workshop in the park of Nea Chalkidona, while in the evening there will be a concert by Stelios Rokkos in the lake of the grove of Nea Philadelphia. It was preceded by the concerts with Rita Antonopoulou and the Revans on Saturday, as well as the traditional feast with island food by the quartet of musicians “Xafrago Abeli” on Sunday.

Three days of events and in municipality of Heraklion with the field of action the Fix Estate, i.e. the area acquired by the municipality and turned into a park this year. Booths from florists and nurseries await visitors and professionals give advice on flowers, plants, but also on the Mayan wreath.

The Fix Estate also hosts an art exhibition on the theme of women and flowers. The Art Workshop of Heraklion Attica in collaboration with KEAEDIA are setting up an art workshop for young and old with a spring decor.

The Department of Culture has also planned a concert for May Day with Christina Golia and her band and in fact the program will be opened by the band of the students of the 4th Lyceum of the city.

Finally, a special action was organized by the Municipal Library, which on May Day will make available selected books for reading in the park, having also prepared actions for its little friends.

May Day is celebrated with music, dance and song municipality of Filothei-Psychikoas in Alsos Psychiko the visitors will make their wreaths accompanied by the music and dance group “Evihon”, with dance and melodies from different parts of Greece.

To municipality of Agios Dimitrios the focus of the events is the Botanical Garden, in front of the Holy Church of Agios Vasilios. There, on the eve of May Day, special Workshops were organized to make Mayan wreaths, which on May Day will decorate the city to welcome May. In the Workshops, visitors have the opportunity to take a guided tour of the Garden, to get to know and study the plants, to play musical and kinetic environmental games, to make wreaths from recyclable materials, to make nests for birds and to plant an aromatic plant in a pot that will take it with them. The Culture, Sports & Environment Organization provided all the flowers needed to make the wreaths and DJ music.

A Spring Festival on the occasion of May Day is organized by municipality of Lavreotiki in the Cultural Park of Keratea. It started on Friday and will end on May 2. This Festival is aimed at families and children aged 4 to 14, with a series of cultural, entertainment and educational events. Children have the opportunity to take part in the educational programs by making excavations, admiring impressive dinosaur figurines and enjoying the park with a roller coaster ride. As part of the Festival, puppet shows with Irina Boyko, a music concert with Stelios Mac, a theater game, face painting and many more activities are held.

The Flower Exhibitions of the municipalities

Of course, May is the month of Flower Shows and May Day is their focus. Here the great tradition is kept by municipality of Kifissia, who organizes for the 69th year the famous Exhibition in Alsos. It opened its doors last Thursday and will run until May 14, with thousands of species of plants and flowers in 86 stylish stands. This year the theme park also has 8 Greek gardens, which draw their inspiration from the diverse Greek Mediterranean landscape.

Every day there are various events and there are special educational programs for children, while especially for May Day the traditional rally of old cars, antiques and flowers is planned, namely a dramatization of a poem entitled “Hello, Mr. Menexe” and a spring theater act by the children’s, infant and nursery centers of the municipality.

The 32nd Flower Exhibition is organized on the cobbled beach of Varkiza, by municipality of Vari-Voulas-Vouliagmeni in collaboration with the Florist Cooperative of Planters of Attica. It started on Friday and will run daily until May 14. Producers of flowers, plants and other garden products participate in this “festival”, giving visitors the opportunity to explore the colorful and fragrant world of flowers. This particular exhibition has been associated with the Varkiza region for many years and, beyond the joy it offers, actively contributes to the promotion of Greek flower production.

A large exhibition entitled “Plants and Garden” is also hosted by municipality of Peristeri in the Grove of the city, from April 29 to May 14. Producers, professionals and florists from Peristeri and western Athens participate, with a wide variety of plants, flowers and garden items. All of this is surrounded by playgrounds, a bicycle track, outdoor gyms and green walking routes.

Finally, for the second year, municipality of Nea Smyrni is organizing its own Flower Exhibition in Alsos, which will last until May 7.

Memorial day for Caesariani

However, for him Kaisariani municipality May Day always has a special and special character, since it is a day of memory and honor for the 200 executed by the Nazi occupation troops in 1944 at the city’s shooting range. Except this year the events will take place next weekend. The municipality of Kaisarianis in collaboration with the municipality of Haidari, in whose camp the executed were imprisoned, are organizing a two-day event.

This includes on Saturday (6/5) a tribute event at Block 15 (Chaidari Camp), an off-road race in honor of Napoleon Soukatzidis at the Kaisariani Shooting Range and on Sunday (7/5) a symbolic torch relay, which will follow the route did the Germans’ trucks that May Day, starting from Block 15 of Haidari and ending at the execution site of the Kaisarianis Shooting Range (starting time from Haidari 9 am).

On Sunday, there will be another gathering at the Old Town Hall of Kaisariani and a picket march to the Shooting Range. A ceremony of honor will follow in the area of ​​the Monument (11 am) and in the evening (8 pm) the theatrical performance “MAUTHAUSEN” will be given by the theater workshop of the Artistic-Educational Organization “Iakovos Kampanellis” in the event hall of the municipality Caesariani.