One Greek annual event is the Santorini Jazz Festival in Santorini,.
The Festival for Jazz Music has been established in Santorini.
for the last 4 years, during the warm summer months, and has become.
an important cultural event for the island with the support from local.
authorities and businesses, and is visited by friends of modern jazz.
from all over the world. The success of the well-organized festivals in.
the past, with the participation of some of the finest jazz musicians and.
bands, gives the Santorini Jazz Festival the prospect of becoming one of.
the best of its kind in Greece. In the last three years, the festival has.
presented 18 of the major jazz bands from international jazz scene,.
covering all the spectrum of modern jazz: Be Bop, Fusion, Mainstream.
Jazz, and Ethnic & Funk.
Another annual event is the Athens Marathon. The Athens.
Marathon re-creates the legendary route of Pheidippides, a trained.
runner who was believed to have been sent from the town of Marathon.
to Athens to announce the defeat of an invading army in 490 BC. The.
modern day race begins as the ancient one did - in the town of.
Marathon, Greece, and ends at the Olympic Stadium in Athens. Those.
who have completed the race say it's an experience like no other.
The most popular annual event is the Greek Olympics. It was.
dedicated to Zeus, the father of gods. The Ancient Greeks even said.
that they thought it was so important that not even war would disrupt.
it. It is so popular that there is not only the Greek Olympics, but there.
is also the Summer and Winter Olympics as well.
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