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A variety of festivals are taking place in the summer months and through September and October. The most prominent ones are the Santorini Jazz Festival at Kamari , the ‘Ifestia’ festival that takes place in August and features music concerts, traditional dance performances and ends with an impressive show of fireworks and the International Music Festival that takes place in September. The locals will welcome you to join their feasts and dances and treat you with culinary delights when their local parishes celebrate their patron Saints. The most attended of them are the feat of Episkopi at the village of Mesa Gonia on August 15 the festival of Profitis Ilias on July 20.
At these festivities you will most certainly be offered a glass of the incomparable Santorini wine made from the local varieties of Assyrtico, Athiri, Mantilaria and Nykteri.
Asyrtiko in the island of Santorini gives a homonym PDO dry white wine and a sweet white wine by the name of Vinsanto (Vino di Santorini).
Dry White wines of Santorini with (Protected Designation of Origin)
Sweet White wines of Santorini with (Protected Designation of Origin)
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