Sotira Kolokasi Festival

Sotira's Pancyprian Kolokasi Festival, held each September and reaching its forty-sixth edition, celebrates taro root, of which the village alone supplies roughly eighty-five percent of Cyprus's entire national production. The unsprayed, naturally organic crop is served in traditional yahni-style stews at a festival running continuously for over four decades in this Kokkinochoria red-soil farming village.

Sotira alone grows roughly eighty-five percent of all kolokasi, or taro root, cultivated anywhere in Cyprus, producing around two thousand tons a year in the fertile red soil of the Kokkinochoria region on the island's southeast coast, and the Pancyprian Kolokasi Festival that celebrates this single crop has run for over four decades, reaching its forty-sixth staging in September, making it one of the longest continuously running village produce festivals on the island.