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Athienou Festival in Athienou
Athienou's Festival of Cypriot Products, held each October roughly halfway between Larnaca and Nicosia, celebrates the village's quality wheat and milk production through live bread-making and cheese-making demonstrations using traditional Cypriot methods, alongside tastings of local bread, bakery and dairy goods, music and traditional dance performances.
Wheat and milk of documented good quality give Athienou its agricultural reputation, and the village's October Festival of Cypriot Products builds its entire programme around turning those two raw staples into the finished goods visitors actually taste: bread, bakery items and dairy products prepared using traditional methods, demonstrated live rather than only sold as finished packages at market stalls.