Rethymno is preparing to host tens of thousands of people from every corner of Crete, Greece and even from abroad!
The 38 Groups of the Carnival of Rethymnon, put the finishing touches on their 29 floats, the registrations of Carnivalists are expected to reach 15,000 and everyone and everything is ready for the Grand Parade on Sunday 10 March!
Besides, the weather is now spring-like, so many people experienced romantic moments in the old Greek serenades and the theatrical event of "We and We" that amazed the audience, as well as the carnival bike parade that attracted the interest of young and old, who walked around the old and new town of Rethymno with clear weather and the thermometer ready to exceed even 20 degrees Celsius in the next few days!
On Saturday 9 March, at 16.30, the children and their escorts will gather at the Theotokopoulou junction in Kallithea, Rethymnon. At 17.00 the children's parade will start with adult supervision from the Theotokopoulou junction and with music by DJ Iro Fryganaki. The finish in the courtyard of the 3rd Gymnasium. At 18.00 on the spot we will have a cheerful Live Concert with Bo and at 19.00 a children's party with Rouro and the Balloon, Sbandieratori di Gubbio, Kids Carnival Dance, Magic Show with Magician Tetello, Bubbles Show, our favorite mascots, Omma Studio stilt walkers, Face Painting, Music by DJ Nikos Goniotis. A few moments before the Grand Parade, we present you the parade order of the Rethymno Carnival 2019.
"Dance in Space and Time", the rich programme of events of the culmination of the event and most importantly, the proceedings of the big meeting at the Town Hall of the Metropolitan Municipality of Rethymnon, with a set of leaders, co-organizers, volunteers and security forces that guarantee that this year the Carnival of Rethymnon, Crete, will be not only the most dynamic and entertaining, but also the safest!
The greeting of George Marinakis, Mayor of Rethymnon "And I, in turn, welcome you with many thanks for our carnivalists, volunteers, but also all those who, during this critical period, will make a great effort to make this year an excellent event and I mean, of course, the police, the fire brigade, the Samaritans, the Red Cross, our sponsors, the Catering Association, the journalists, all the media that promote us, the thousands of people who give their soul for months for this successful event that has become an institution and has conquered the consciousness not only of the Cretans, but also in the Panhellenic, because this successful event reminds me and reminds us all what we can do when there is a system, order and observance of the rules. That day is an exemplary day for the functioning of a city that receives a very large volume of visitors, has an excellent organisation and yet can and does function perfectly at all levels, and this is mainly thanks to you. We as a municipality are obviously interested and supportive of this great event, but we never forget that the soul is the carnivalists themselves and the volunteers and the service people who make sure that this excellent product is delivered. I also want to say, because in the past few days, we were also hit by a big bad weather, that there is no problem for anyone to come to Rethymno, all the roads from all directions are open, the city works perfectly, besides, the city suffered almost no inconvenience from this bad weather, so we are ready to welcome our thousands of visitors and I hope our professionals to show the required professionalism, because for us this institution, this celebration, is to demonstrate and highlight the good elements that we have as Rethymnians and all the other, which do not suit us, we have to fight them. Finishing again with the warm thanks, I make an appeal, we have much more fun when we are not drunk, our hospital and our volunteers will obviously do their duty, I hope they are all unnecessary, thank you, I wish you good luck in this carnival and I am glad that the weather is our ally this year. Bless you all! Thank you very much!
The message of Pepi Birliraki, President of the Organizing Committee 2019, Rethymno with a lot of dancing in space and time, we are all here, the groups first of all, the municipality, next to them and then the whole society, the security forces, the thousands of volunteers, the media, present everywhere and of course all these officials, the institutions, the professionals of our society, but also the service employees of the municipality of Rethymno, who are spread throughout the length and breadth of our municipality, in the villages, in the countryside, in the city, on the beach, trying to prepare as proper hosts the great celebration of Crete, a celebration, which is already well underway and which will last until the Clean Monday, but will leave within us, the seeds of cheer and positive energy that we will have given and taken in the great celebration of Rethymnon. So, the whole of Crete is celebrating, the whole of Crete will be here in Rethymno, a Rethymno ready in every respect, to give healthy and safe fun to all, to show the cooperation that has been done and the actions that have been done for so long, for educational and cultural events individually and related to the history of the place, But also the modern Rethymno citizen, who cooperates for a prosperity, cooperates to give his children a next day full of morality, safety, because we learn through the security forces that guide us, how to deal, not only in our daily lives, but also in major events that we all do together safely every single thing. We are here for all of Greece for many, many people who ask to come from abroad with 1,200 hotel beds declared, such as for the city of Rethymnon and the city's region, but also many hotels in our villages, in the countryside large and small hotel accommodation will be waiting for you to spend a beautiful weekend and on the weekend and on Carnival Monday. The catering apart from its proper preparation for feeding the guests, is there to share with you the fun, is there in a personal tone always, to welcome the guests, to give us, apart from the Cretan food, the famous and the company, because at every step in the embrace of the city of Rethymnon, you will all feel that you are part of the family, part of the good company of the carnival. All we have to say is that we took care with prevention, as you hear from everyone, in the big meeting of operators and the municipality, we made sure we had all the hygiene and safety measures, we would like the help of parents in terms of protecting his children and towards the healthy, not in outdoor grills, only in certified proper stores your feeding, but also be careful the sprays are unhealthy to use the children, also the plastic pulp is unhealthy for our nature and for ourselves and also as you hear us all say Rethymno says: "Metron Ariston" everywhere and on alcohol, but also on everything concerning our proper and safe entertainment. Thank you to those who have been our fellow travellers to date. Thank you to all those who have been by our side as sponsors of all kinds in kind, financially, but above all in energy and rallying and thank you to those who will always be with us, whether as professionals giving us their advice and services, or as volunteers, or simply as people, as Rethymnians who are there and together we celebrate. Happy Carnival! The security forces and their operational planning.
The representative of the local ELAS, Emmanuel Stavyanoudakis. The Rethymnon Police Directorate is ready to guarantee the safe conduct of the carnival events and to ensure the smooth flow of vehicles inside and outside the city. To this end, it has prepared a special police planning for the festive three days of Carnival and Carnival, the main axes of which are the strengthening of public safety, the strengthening of the General Police and ensuring the normal flow of vehicles, especially emergency vehicles. We would like to inform you that we will pay special attention to the observance of the legislation concerning underage drinking, the control of open-air trade and open-air barbecues, for this purpose we have set up special crews, staffed by police officers, which will be active both on Saturday and Sunday, the day of the Grand Parade. We have been reinforced with personnel and resources from the General Regional Police Directorate of Crete and for the implementation of all police actions more than 150 police officers will be made available. We are in communication and cooperation with the institutions and services for the service of visitors to the city, as well as residents. Thank you.
The commander of the traffic department of Rethymnon, Sotirios Tzatzakis I would like to tell you that for the three-day traffic police will take increased measures to serve visitors, speaking now more specifically for Sunday, will be made some traffic regulations depending on the prevailing conditions. Our goal is to make traffic flow smoothly, to come visitors safely in our city and of course not to be inconvenienced, when the parking lots of the city will be filled we will give you some instructions now for how visitors will be directed either from Chania, or from Heraklion. Vehicles from Heraklion will be directed through the Atsipopoulou junction, to the side road to the university and from there they will arrive at the Gallus sports centre, where they can park for free, their movement from there to the city centre will be done by regular bus services and then to return again to the same point, this will again be done by bus services from Kefalogiannidon Street and from the central station. As for the vehicles coming from Chania, they will be directed through the Zourida Bridge, to the large parking lots that exist: Megaro, Pharos and Pelagos, where in the same way with buses of the KTEL they will move to enter the city and return to this point. The tourist buses will go through the Atsipopoulou junction and will be driven to Kefalogiannis Street and from there they will be able to park at the commercial port. We would like to recommend to drivers to be careful, to be patient, not to consume alcohol, to be informed through the signs placed at various central points and of course to follow the instructions of the police officers. Thank you!
Theodosis Butcher, Commander of the Rethymno Fire Department As Rethymnians and we firefighters want this year's carnival to succeed, as it has succeeded all these years, without any aberrations, without traffic accidents and fires. We for these cases, for traffic accidents and fires will have increased readiness, we will have twice as many staff on those days than we usually have, not only in Rethymno, but we will be able to contribute to the provincial roads of Spili, the highway Chania-Heraklion with two vehicles and another vehicle in Amari. We hope everything goes well, we want it, we said we are Rethymnians and we want the carnival to succeed. Inside the parade there will be two fire trucks, one south and one north of the parade, but there will be two other vehicles in our service for whatever is needed, there will also be four other vehicles regionally in our staging areas. So because we're also seeing that the weather is going to be favorable, the wind is going to be low, the wind is what usually spreads a fire. We think everything will go well and we won't have any problems because in other years we've had heat waves this time of year, like last year and we didn't have any problems, so this year we're hoping that there won't be any problems and everything will go well. The Red Cross volunteers, the ambulance and SYFAK together with Athenian Brewery for alcohol prevention.
George Kaklamanos, Red Cross Officer 130 colleagues at 16 different stations along the route, with 2 first aid stations, one at the 3rd High School and the second towards the end of the route, will assist in the safety of the people. Good luck to everyone, it is good to be careful all of us, more so the carnival goers, you don't necessarily need alcohol to have fun, just good company, good luck to all!
Andreas Vourvachakis, Rescuer in the Ambulance Crew from the ambulance, Rethymno once again as it has proven is shielded with ambulances, on the specific day that the Grand Parade takes place. I would like to ask everyone with composure when we call the ambulance, with composure to inform our operator, so that he can also help as much as possible. I would like to thank the Smile of the Child for the cooperation and support that we will have at the Carnival in Rethymnon, as well as Gerakari Agali Homes, which also has its ambulance with its crew. Thank you very much!
Despina Papageorgiou, Pharmacist of SYFAR I am a pharmacist at SYFAR here in Rethymno, I represent SYFAK, we are here again this year, next to the society of Rethymno at the Rethymno Carnival, providing free health material, here at the Red Cross to help it carry out its work, as well as providing free disposable breathalysers to stress to drivers not to drink and drive. Thank you, Happy Carnival.
George Nakis, representative of Athenian Brewery And this year we are at the carnival of Rethymnon, we are sponsors, I am sure that we will have a brilliant carnival both in terms of weather and in terms of organization. I would like to point out once again that for us as a beer company, our presence in Rethymno is about this serious cultural activity that is taking place. I would also like to point out an action that we have started for three years, this year is the third year and the data we have from the traffic police, but also from the hospital shows that it can pay off, it is an action that we do in cooperation with KEDIR, the municipality of Rethymnon, SYFAK, distributing to drivers mainly, a ten-tip form how they can enjoy their drink without any issues and a disposable breathalyzer, this will be done again this year on Saturday at noon, in Kountouriotis street, in front of the town hall and will also be done on Sunday, in the parking lot in the marina of Rethymnon, a total of 2 will be distributed.000 alcohol tests, to car drivers and the corresponding form. We believe that with this action, we can prevent various incidents, because as I say every time, for us the aim is not for the carnivalists and spectators to drink beer, if everyone could drink just one beer, we would be more satisfied and happier, I believe. Happy Carnival!
"THE CHORUS IN SPACE AND IN TIME" Crew and Chariot Parade Series 2019: THE RODALACIA - O.K.A. Preveli Sbandieratori di Gubbio Cheerleaders Dolphin Breaths King Carnival 2019-The Dance in Space and Time *NATA KEFATAPiuma Al Vento, *EQUATCH' THE COUCH KATCHIKA Innocent Doves, *ALADANAREDES Bobbies, *JITZICOTRICHES Vitsings-The Invasion of the Cusuls, *ARCALS "Beyond rains...", *ALTER EGO Take me wherever you want, taxi driver...,AS THE MOMMA IS THE FISH Come on, my little Dutch girl, *RACO-JUDGED 10 years RACO and our sentence goes up, *OTHER What a Took-man what a Took-all, *ME AND MECates ... Rockates, *SAFE CLUB Counterfeiters, *CHAPACHULES Life is crazy, I want to be your sweetest candy, *ALLANDALLON Don't wind me up anymore, BUBBUNES Carnival brewers, *GUSGUNS Cirque du Lamogien, *URANOCATES Assassin-less, *POTAGONISTS What did Saint Peter kill?, *GAME OF THRONES CLUB Carnival is coming..., *ALLEITURISTS Pharaoh and Cleopatra, "*CARNIVALOI "To the rhythm... of Marshmallow, TARAXES Alice has become... a rabbit, *ANIMALS The Phantom of the Opera, *SCARABIANS CLUB How much of a Courser are you?, *Against the crowd Others are pulling the strings..., *All it takes is a salad... A salad... To make me your BATRAH, *(ANTI)SMOKERS CLUB Hercules' "wretches", POTENT HATE Peter Pan and Tinker Bell: Star Dust & Let's Go!, *GAZANOVESCardinals...Cardinals, *All Playboy VICTORS, *FEY...CATS The Emperor's in a good mood, *What the rock is going on?, *FOLLOWING Group Disco...really, *Slave Club Stop the clock, Stop the clocks, THE FOLLOWING Mickey and Minnie, ROYAL BUSINESS Rugby Champions, ROYAL BUSINESS Rugby Champions, *BEARS OF FOOTBALL I'm going to sleep in a sleeping bag I'm staying in...Airbnb, *GROUPS WITH Asterisks (*) HAVE A BREATH.
FRIDAY 8 MARCH 2019 TRADITIONAL CRETAN SERENADES. The traditional ensembles of the Music School of Rethymnon with students and teachers, musicians of our city, the music group of the traditional club Erofili and the groups of the Rethymno Carnival revive the custom of the Cretan serenade. 19:00 Start from the square of the Unknown Soldier and end at Pigadi (Megali Porta) in charge of the Music School: Elias Pieris coordinator-participant: Akis Plaitis
SATURDAY 9 MARCH 2019 CHILDREN'S PARADE. 16:30 Gathering of children at Theotokopoulou Knot 17:00 Start of the Children's Parade, supervised by adults, from Theotokopoulou Knot Music by DJ Iro Fryganaki Finish at the courtyard of the 3rd Gymnasium 18:00 Live concert with Bo 19:00 Children's party with Rouro and the Balloon. Sbandieratori di Gubbio. Kids Carnival Dance. Magic show with the magician Tetello. Bubbles show. Your favourite mascots. Face painting.Music by DJ Nikos Goniotis NIGHT PARADE 21:00 Start of the Night Parade from the Theotokopoulou Knoll Parade of crews with the participation of OMMA Studio Music by DJ Petros Klapsinos 22:00 Finish and live concert with Kostas Doxas at Mikrasiaton Square.
13:00 Arrival of crews at Theotokopoulou Junction 14:00 Opening of the Grand Parade by the Mayor of Rethymnon, Mr. George Marinakis Presented by Nikos Anadiotis and Ioanna Maleskou Music by DJs Iro Fryganakis and Kostas Rakitzis 15:00 DJ party at the Heroes of Polytechnic Square (Sochora) Music by DJ Nikos Goniotis CLOSING CELEBRATION 18:30 Closing Ceremony of the Rethymno Carnival 2019 at the beach (El. Burning of the King Carnival's float to the sound of BATALA percussionists Friendly participation by Sbandieratori di Gubbio Concert with The Soul Gig on the beach
KATARA MONDAY 11 MARCH 2019 CITY OF RETHYMNON PERIVOLIA. 12:30 Traditional Kouloumma with bean soup at the 8th Primary School of Perivolia Organized by: Synpolis and the Greek Scouts Corps Rousspiti: 10:00 Traditional Kouloumi at Rousospiti ANO VALSAMONERO: 12:00 Traditional Kouloumi and kite flying by the Cultural Association of Ano Valsamoneros Gerani. 10:10:10 Kite making and kite flying. Koulouma with kite flying, carnival events and Lenten delicacies. Organization.
PARALLEL EVENTS AND GROUP PARTIES: 8/3 ALTER EGO-METROPOLIS SOCIETY BAR-AT 21:30 8/3 RINGERS-UANO AT 21:30 8/3:8/3 EMEIS KI EMEIS-ICE CLUB-TIME 23:00-THEME: THE TRUTH IS IN SEX PISTOLS! GEGE; 8/3 ALL VIZIERS-CUL DE SAC-TOPIC: WIG PARTY 8/3 OTHER GROUPS-METROPOLIS SOCIETY BAR-AT 22:30 9/3 TOUR GUIDES CLUB-TOURIST CLUB HALL, AFTER THE NIGHT PARADE-TOPIC: NIGHTMARE PETALLUDES SATURDAY 9 MARCH AND SUNDAY 10 MARCH 2019 CARNIVAL BEACH PARTY The craziest Carnival weekend from the TE PARTA GROUP and Primo Piato Restaurant Steak House. At the Paraliaki Avenue of Rethymno (El. Venizelou 2-4) Saturday 9 March, at 19:00 Sunday 10 March, at 15:00 SATURDAY 9 MARCH AND SUNDAY 10 MARCH 2019 1st PE-TRELADIKA PARTY For the first time, the alley at Petaladika (Tzane Bouniali) will be on fire!Live music and DJ. With a rock mood, the band of Lefteris Tzagarakis (D. Varouchas, G. Korinthios, M. Nazlis). Then, a select quintet with rebetiko and folk music (V. Aκριβos, D. Varouchas, G. Veridakis, V. Tsiftsi). On the musical selections, DJ Koulis Depastas and DJ Stavros Saturday 9 March, at 19:00 Sunday 10 March, at 17:30 Organizer: Arambas, Nyn and Ai, Chalisiko, In the nail and in the horseshoe SUNDAY 10 MARCH 2019 15:00 ALLADALLON MEGANITE-Non Stop Electronic Music-Party of the ALLADALLON Group at Mikrasiaton Square.
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