On Saturday, March 25, events dedicated to the national day will be held in Attica. anniversary March 25 1821.

According to GEETHA, at 06:21 am, 21 salutes will be fired from Lycabettos artillery, and Eotinos will be performed by the musical units of the Armed Forces and the Security Forces.

At 08:00, the official raising of the National Flag on the Holy Rock of the Acropolis will take place, and at 10:00, an official doxology will take place in the Athens Cathedral under the presidency of His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. Hieronymus II in the presence of the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

At 10:01 a.m., 21 Lycabettus artillery salutes will be fired, and at 10:55 a.m. the President of the Hellenic Republic will lay a wreath at the monument to the Unknown Soldier.

At 11:00 am, the parade of the Armed Forces and the Security Forces will begin in front of the monument to the Unknown Soldier, in front of the President of the Hellenic Republic.

At 18:41, the official lowering of the National Flag on the Holy Rock of the Acropolis is scheduled with 21 salute shots from Lycabettus artillery.

Entrance to the Military Museum will be free.

At the same time, parades of military units will be held throughout the territory, a general festive celebration of units, military depots and warships will be held, as well as illumination of units, military depots and warships in the evening hours of March. 24 and 25.

Blue and white in the Piraeus

For its part, the Municipality of Piraeus is once again celebrating March 25 this year and taking part in a symbolic action in the celebration of our national anniversary.

The mayor of Piraeus, Mr. Yiannis Moralis, will take part in the parade in Piraeus at 12:30. Earlier, he will attend a doxology at the Metropolitan Church of the Holy Trinity and lay a wreath at the monument to Georgios Karaiskakis on the square of the same name.

The Municipality of Piraeus, after the parade at 14:00, will once again plant a large Greek flag on the surface of the sea at Ormos tis Aphroditis in Piraiki. The action is supported by the Association of Greek Divers, the 1st Piraeus Municipality, the Coast Guard, the Hellenic Maritime Club, the Greek Red Cross and the Association of Piraeus Amateur Anglers “Agios Nikolaos”. anniversaries are supported by the Piraeus Philharmonic Brass Band.

At the same time, from Friday, March 24 to Sunday, March 26, the frigate “Themistocles” and the high-speed missile patrol boat “Karathanasis” will be moored in the port of Piraeus, and those who wish can visit them. free.

Thessaloniki: Activities for the National Anniversary of 25 March

The events will take place today, Friday and Saturday in Thessaloniki on the occasion of the national anniversary of March 25th. Celebrations and performances will take place in schools, and at 10:00 wreaths will be laid to the Hero of the 3rd Army Corps by delegations of students from elementary and secondary schools in Thessaloniki in the presence of authorities, the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki and the leaders of the Thessaloniki Department of Education. At 10.30 am, the coronation of statuettes, busts and monuments to the Heroes is planned by student delegations of the Departments of Primary and Secondary Education of Thessaloniki in the presence of school principals.

At 12:00 at the Ceremonial Amphitheater of the University of Macedonia, there will be an event dedicated to the national anniversary, which will be welcomed by the rector, Professor Stylianos Katranidis. Dimitrios Stamatopoulos, Professor of the Department of Balkan Studies, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the School of Economics and Regional Studies, will deliver the main report of the day on the topic “Interpretation of the Greek Revolution of 1821 in the Ottoman context”. This year’s event will not include a musical program due to the Tempe tragedy on February 28th.

On March 25, according to the program of events of the Region of Central Macedonia, at 10.00 an official doxology will take place in the Temple of the Wisdom of God, at 10.30 a wreath will be laid to the Hero of the 3rd Army. corps, and at 11.15 on M. Alexandru Avenue a parade of representative student, political and military sections took place, ending at the White Tower.

The official National Anniversary Ceremony on March 25 is scheduled for 18:00 Saturday at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Alexandros Papanastasiou Ceremonial Hall of the Old School of Philosophy AUTH). The ceremony of the day will be hosted by Mr. Akritas Kaidacis, Professor of the Faculty of Law of AUTH, on the topic: “Liberal and Democratic Constitutionalism of the Revolution of 1821”.

Source: RES-IPE