It’s the holiday season in Athens and the festivities have started along the coast the Fliosvos Marina Opening Ceremony (17:30 – 19:30)
The spirit of Christmas comes to life on the waters edge at Athens’ favorite coastal playground, Fliosvos Marina! The Christmas Magic Elf Riviera, face painters, stilt walkers, and other street performers will entertain you as you stroll and the children play. The beautiful Marina’s 12m tree will illuminated during the opening ceremony with music, songs, Fireworks, and a special arrival aboard one of the Marina’s finer yachts!
PHOTOGRAPHS WITH ST BASIL (THE GREEK SANTA!) (18:00 – 22:00)
Letters to St Basil (16:00 – 20:00)
Youngsters and the young at heart write letters to Santa Claus revealing the most sweet their desires. Fliosvos Marina’s postal service promises timely delivery of your letters to everyone’s favorite Saint. What will you ask for this year?
FACE PAINTING (16:00 – 20:00)
Stars, angels, bells and just about whatever comes to your mind can come to life on your face! And there’s no age limit, so if you have always wanted to have your face painted, this might be your chance!
SATURDAY 12/18 & SUNDAY 12/19
Letters to St Basil (12:00 – 18:00)
FACE PAINTING (12:00 – 18:00)
PHOTOGRAPHS WITH ST BASIL (THE GREEK SANTA!) (12:00 – 18:00)
SUNDAY 12/19
CHRISTMAS SOUS -PLAT (12:00 – 18:00)
Crafting activities for the youngster.
«The Nutcracker»
Puppet Show (17:00 – 17:45)
What would Christmas be without the Greek version of the classic Christmas favorite, the Nutcracker? Young Clara dreams of the Snow Queen, the Sugar Plum Fairy and other characters, one of the most popular and favourite ballets of all time. The puppets in our travel dream ……
SATURDAY 12/25 & SUNDAY 12/26 (Christmas Day and Boxing Day)
Letters to Santa (12:00 – 18:00)
FACE PAINTING (12:00 – 18:00)
PHOTOGRAPHS WITH ST BASIL (THE GREEK SANTA!) (12:00 – 18:00)
SUNDAY 12/26 (Boxing Day)
CHRISTMAS SOUS – PLAT (12:00 – 18:00)
«Scrooge and the Spirit of Christmas» (otherwise known as A Christmas Carol),
Puppet Show (17:00 – 17:45)
It’s Christmas Eve. Scrooge works tirelessly in his cold office. Not that he is missing the money to buy more coal. Scrooge is just a terrible cheapstake! You know the story … come hear it in Greek!
FRIDAY 12/31 (New Year’s Eve day)
Letters to Santa (12:00 – 18:00)
FACE PAINTING (12:00 – 18:00)
PHOTOGRAPHS WITH ST BASIL (THE GREEK SANTA!) (12:00 – 18:00)
SATURDAY 01/01 (New Year’s Day) & SUNDAY 01/02
FACE PAINTING (12:00 – 18:00)
CHRISTMAS SOUS -PLAT (12:00 – 18:00)
SATURDAY 01/01 (New Year’s Day in Athens)
Dwarf Rumplestilskin, his daughter and the spirit of Christmas ‘
Puppet Show (17:00 – 17:45)
Another popular story that appears around the world in many variations about the efforts of his daughter to make straw … Gold!
SUNDAY 02/01
«Strange Christmas»,
Puppet Show (17:00 – 17:45)
The goblins decide to abduct Santa Claus and to distribute those along with his presents! The puppets spread the story of a very strange Christmas …
PLUS! Children’s Playland “VOLTA FUN PARK”
Trampolines, inflatable toys, cars, moonwalks, table footballs, basketball and … many other surprises
How to get there
From Syntagma, take the Tram to the Trocadero stop.
From Pireaus, take any of these bus lines: Α1, Β1, 101, 217, 860
From the metro via the Sygrou Fix station, transfer to bus 550 (“Terma” or end of the line)
as well as Β2 (stop “ΟΥΛΕΝ”)
