Palouzes Festival

The Arosos village in the Limassol district hosts the yearly Palouzes Festival. Visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy freshly made Palouzes and other traditional sweets.

The event will include a bazaar with traditional products as well as dance and music performances.

Buses to the event will be available at the Germasogia Tourist Area at 15:00. For reservations call CTO tel.25323211.

Palouzes is a thick-jelly like sweet which is made by adding 10 kg of clean grape must with 1 kg of flour and heating the mixture while stirring continuously until it is coagulated, adding rosewater, cinnamon and mastic towards the end so as to maintain their aroma. Palouzes is then poured into plates where it is left to cool down. Some people enjoy consuming hot palouzes which has just been removed from the heat but commonly it is served cold with a garnish of almonds or walnuts, whole or crushed. Due to its high moisture content, it has a few days of shelf life if kept in refrigeration. Palouzes that is left to dry in the shade is then cut in rectangular shaped pieces to give another traditional sweet food, kiofterka, which have a longer life. Kiofterka are a favorite energy food, often consumed along with zivania, a perfect warm-up during the winter season.