Festival

Dekapentavgoustos Glenti at Litsarda — Nikos Karkanis

The eve of the Dormition in the old school yard at Litsarda, with Nikos Karkanis. One of the Apokoronas plain's big nights.

The night of 14 August on the Apokoronas plain is the closest thing Crete has to a second Easter, and Litsarda is one of the villages that does it properly. The glenti runs in the yard of the old school, Nikos Karkanis plays, and it will not really get going until well after the advertised nine o'clock. Twenty euros at the gate. If you have only one night in Chania in mid-August, this belt of villages is where you should spend it, because every square for miles around is doing the same thing at the same time and the whole plain hums.