Flour power in Greece as carnival celebrations on 'Clean Monday' marks start of Lent
The flour fight, on the coastal road lining Galaxidi's old harbour, takes place on Clean Monday, the beginning of the 40-day Christian Lent fast that ends on Easter Sunday.
For a few hours every year, residents and visitors of this pretty Greek seaside town have a license to lose their civility. (Photo | Associated Press)
They have what's known as a 'flour war' — participants pelt each other with bags of dyed flour along the coastal road lining Galaxidi's old harbor. (Photo | Associated Press)
It's an explosion of color that takes place every Clean Monday, an Orthodox Christian holiday marking the start of Lent and the end of the carnival season which holds onto many of the country's pre-Christian traditions. (Photo | Associated Press)
Some of the town's former grandeur remains, including many of its traditional stone houses.(Photo | Associated Press)
The flour fight, on the coastal road lining Galaxidi's old harbor, takes place on Clean Monday, the beginning of the 40-day Christian Lent fast that ends on Easter Sunday. (Photo | Associated Press)
The town only acquired a proper road link to the rest of central Greece in the 1960s, leaving much of Galaxidi with the appearance of a Greek island. (Photo | Associated Press)
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