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 organized in the village’s plaza and lasted for a day.

Ten years later, the “Dionysia” Festival started being organized 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, handicraft, fruits, vine-produce and flowers are organized -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.