Wine Festival of Dafnes is a food festival in Heraklion.
Editorially verified August 1, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: Village square, Dafnes, Iraklio 700 11, Heraklion
Four August nights of concerts on five village stages in Houdetsi, twenty-two kilometres south of Heraklion, starting at nine in the evening and running until early morning.
Tip: The village also holds the Labyrinth Musical Workshop, which puts on exhibits of traditional Cretan instruments alongside the festival programme.
From October to December the villages around Heraklion fire their stills and turn grape pomace into tsikoudia, and each rakokazano turns into an open party with roast meat, chestnuts, lyra and the first warm raki.
On 25 August the Municipality of Heraklion honours Saint Titus, the island's first bishop, with a town-wide feast and traditional Cretan food and sweets handed out to everyone who turns up.
