The Rethymnon Carnival, with the large participation of carnivalists and local artists, who are inspired throughout the year, design and create in all forms of art, aims to enhance its creative identity every year.

This points to RES-EIA Manos Tsakonas Vice Mayor of Culture Municipality of Rethymnon, explaining that Carnival is an institution that with the contribution, presence and efforts of everyone, “It supports art and creation and not only supports, but further enhances Rethymnon’s identity as a city of letters and arts“

This year’s topic is entitled ‘Come to light»And the Rethymnon Carnival invites everyone from Crete, Greece and abroad, to escape with their participation,” from the gray and black of everyday life, near him to spend unforgettable moments of relaxation enjoying music, dance, dance, dance, Theatrical events, exhibitions, arts. ” As evidenced by the history of the Rethymnon Carnival, the first elements of humorous events dated to Rethymnon. Halloween of another era, which have left their nostalgic fragrance widespread still, with romantic dances and Rethymnon dances welcoming the “kingdom of king Carnival in the disorder of the extreme laughter”.

In the early 1960s, the first organized carnival organized by the Rethymnon Travel Club, which with historical tanks, jealous uniforms and the famous “chapters” will keep the Rethymnon Carnival for more than twenty years. In the early 1990s, “Hunting of the Hidden Treasure”, the “groups” were created, which later, in 1993, were invited by the Municipality of Rethymnon, as a helper and funding, to undertake, to support and to give and to give it. Creative life in Rethymnon Carnival. A carnival deservedly established as the “Carnival of Crete”.

In 2025, it is a year where for the first time the Rethymnon Carnival aims at two days and two four -day events inviting the visitor to choose between four different weeks, a program with a strong element of entertainment and art.

As the RES EIA, the chairman of the seven -member Rethymnon Carnival Committee, Manos Tsakonas, “in painting and in sculpture with dozens of tanks used in the decoration of the city, with theatrical sketches presented in the dance of the teams, presented in the dance of the teams, with the EIA. This year they are crafted specifically for the presentation of the theme, with the participation of local music band events, where they will present new creations to the Rethymnon public and their visitors and with the participation of dance groups that create specifically for Carnival, all advocate to Rethymnon, Renaissance, culture, letters, arts and coexistence is illuminated for another year. “

The 2025 program of the Rethymnon Carnival, which is strengthened and supported by the Region of Crete, the Rethymno Chamber and year after year. Starting with a collaboration with the School of Fine Arts, which, holding an annex to Rethymnon, participates with the 11th Painting Lab and a multimedia exhibition. The first three days includes a large costume exhibition with this year’s costumes of all teams, the presentation of the 2025 theme from which the Carnival Queen will be selected via Instagram and the opening ceremony of the events that Mayor George Marinakis will preach on Sunday Triodion’s beginning (09/02), the participation of the Municipal Philharmonic and the established big concert with the famous Lila artist.

According to planning, the second three days is dedicated to the distinct treasure hunting inspiration that ends on Sunday (16/02) and which is justly a place in the Guinness Book as the most populous hunt. It is a different game with the knowledge of the history of the city to be considered necessary and organized by the winner of the previous year. Last year winners and organizers this year are the “indifferent-diaphragm”.

The two -day children’s hunt with the participation of hundreds of children in Elementary Elementary who become real students in the history of Rethymnon, as well as online hunt With the evening night in the old town with tsikoudi and treats completing the mandolin and accordion, as well as the Carnival League with basketball between the teams this year. The first four days officially begins with the events of Ciknop Thursday with outdoor parties and musical -theatrical events from the carnival groups and continues with a multimedia exhibition of the 11th Painting Laboratory of the School of Fine Arts. Following on Saturday, the dance of the teams where carnival groups present theatrical sketches and videos and ends on Sunday of Apocryo (23/02) with the celebration of children, which also the popular Carnival Run, where the small carnivalists run through the old town’s straits, To take actions for children, with a strong carnival element.

The second four days will begin on Friday. Again evening in the old town, again with cadets, but this time with lyres and lutes. The culmination of the events will be as every year, the two Saturday parades, the childhood with a large musical theater performance awaiting the small carnivalists at the end and the very popular night parade with self -influential chariots, thousands of carnivalists and the participation of local artists Explanation of it. On Sunday of Tyrini (02/03) the events culminate with the large parade and the participation of 25 tanks and 28 crews with about 12,000 carnivalists. A spectacular fireworks show on the coastal front will bid farewell to the big celebration. The four -day ends on Clean Monday (03/03) with the Laganians and fasting offered in Gerani, a settlement just 10 kilometers, where the visitor will entertain with the traditional camel custom as well as to the nearby Armeni with Armeni Traditional smudges.

All events are detailed in the events of the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Rethymnon More (Municipality of Rethymno) as well as on the website of the Rethymnon Carnival Rethymnocarnival.gr. Also, elements and program for the carnival are easily found with QR Code, which since last year the Rethymnon Carnival has chosen as a way of communicating by removing almost 100% of paper.

In Rethymnon Carnival, the soul of everything is easily understood that they are the volunteers and groups of carnivalists, with the municipality having for years deciding to fund a big celebration with Pan -Hellenic and global radiation, aiming among other things, to the emergence of A city where its inhabitants reinforce and reward its radiation, as well as expanding the time for the tourism product.