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Traditional Sheep and Goat Halloumi Festival in Prasteio Avdimou
Prasteio Avdimou's Traditional Sheep and Goat Halloumi Festival, held each May, celebrates halloumi made specifically from sheep and goat's milk at the village's Multi-Purpose Centre and square, roughly thirty minutes from Limassol. Interactive cheesemaking demonstrations, children's activities, traditional music and a framed gastronomic, historical and religious journey through the cheese's centuries-old Cypriot origins fill the eleven-to-seven day.
Halloumi made specifically from sheep and goat's milk, rather than the cow's-milk versions increasingly common in mass production, is what Prasteio Avdimou's Traditional Sheep and Goat Halloumi Festival exists to defend and celebrate, staged each May at the village's Multi-Purpose Centre and square roughly thirty minutes' drive from Limassol, held each May, running from eleven in the morning until seven in the evening.