The capital of Halloween is ready to mean the beginning of the spectacular event that it organizes every year and has now established. Or for 2025 she organized a large ceremony in her central square. Music, cheer, joy and crowd meet again in Patras, which has been organizing the country’s largest and most impressive carnival for decades. Tonight (18.01.2020) has been set up “doros” in George Square, where King Carnival begins his journey. ADVERSE Masks, costumes, face paint, serpatines, are the protagonists of the evening in Patras. Thousands of locals and tourists have gathered in the heart of the city to celebrate the opening ceremony and enjoy the great parade. DJ experts put on music, with songs new and old so everyone can dance to the rhythms of the carnival. The events have started in the city since 11 a.m. on the Maizon pedestrian street between Kolokotroni and Agios Nikolaos. ADVERSE See Live the opening ceremony: For “Doro” they were responsible: the Philharmonic Orchestra of Polyphonic, the “Strategics of the Father Carnival” with its carnival cannons, the “SPEGKES” with the collaboration of the M.A. School of Performing Arts, the Free Orchestra, the Asia Minor and Cultural Association of the Gerokom, the School of Dance “Freedom of Tsafoulia”, members of the Board of Directors of the KEDIP, the Advisory Committee, the Critical Committee, the working groups of the Patras Carnival and volunteers of the KEDIP. According to Best.gr, reaching George I Square in front of the Municipal Theatre “Apollon” music programs unfolded by raising the crowded audience Municipal Music, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Polyphonic with happy Halloween rhythms and carnival paanes and the Free Orchestra that as free, spontaneous and multi-member gave its best self with its cheerful free repertoire. All the procession coefficients with a background of the mastery masterpiece of Chiller were photographed together by depicting “Doro” and with image. On the main stage of the square, the “Keep Dancing” school of Mina Panagiotopoulou presented a dance program with audience interaction “extending” the dance in the square, while her share was danced by the “Freedom of Tsafoulia”. The music in the square, making the right climate, was taken over by dj Konstantinos Iliopoulos from the Association of Diskothetes Patras, while the events of the square were presented by Dimitris Moulinos.
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