The padrinos of the arras hold the 13 coins the bride and groom will present to each other following the blessing and placing of rings. This unusual custom comes from the Romans, whose tradition included breaking of gold or silver with one half to be kept by the woman and the other half by the man as a pledge of their marriage.
Bouzouki /Î¼ÏÎ¿ÏÎ¶Î¿ÏÎºÎ¹. Sirtaki or syrtaki /ÏÏÏÏÎ¬ÎºÎ¹ is a popular dance of Greek origin, choreographed by Giorgos Provias for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. It is a recent Greek folkdance, and a mixture of the slow and fast versions of the hasapiko dance.
Santorini (Greek: ÏÎ±Î½ÏÎ¿ÏÎ¯Î½Î·, pronounced [sandoËrini]), classically Thera (English pronunciation /ËÎ¸ÉªÉrÉ/), and officially Thira (Greek: Î¸Î®ÏÎ± [ËÎ¸ira]), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece 's mainland.olcanism on Santorini is due to the Hellenic Trench subduction zone southwest of Crete. The oceanic crust of the northern margin of the African Plate is being subducted under Greece and the Aegean Sea, which is thinned continental crust.