The community of Stroumbi, utilising its tradition
as one of the largest, qualitative wine-making villages of Cyprus
and wanting to offer to both locals and foreigners the opportunity
of being acquainted with the pleasure and taste of grapes and
wine, is celebrating -every year in the month of August -the
grapes' festival "Ta Dionysia". The festival is a
great success every year and it is considered the most important
event throughout the summer that takes place in the region.


The institution of the "Dionysia" festival has
its roots in 1967 when a group of onward-looking people from
the community established the "Dance of the Grape",
which was organised in the village's plaza and lasted for
a day.
Ten years later, the "Dionysia" Festival started
being organised in the venue where it still takes place today
and has taken the form of a three-day festival, the name it
has today coming from that detail.
The festival in question lasts for three days and has an
amusement orchestra, an area for eating and drinking, games,
and dancing. Cypriot and foreign groups with traditional dances
and singers appear. Also, displays of folkloric art, painting,
handicrafts, fruits, vine-produce, and flowers are organised
-as well as other -which receive prizes. Throughout the duration
of the Festival, plenty of grapes and "palouze"
(must jelly) are offered for free.

On the last night of every Festival, a Star "Dionysia"
and a Miss Grape are voted after a dance contest, receiving
lavish gifts.
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