The lively panigyri, or folk festival, is a fixture on the Serifos calendar throughout the year, with traditional tunes from the island, locally produced wine, and tasty dishes creating the setting for the revelry. Indeed, the island is as famous for its wines and picturesque capital, Hora, as it is for its celebrations. At the height of summer, the feast of the Dormition of the Virgin on August 15 is observed with a religious folk festival at the Panayia settlement, near Hora. Locally its known as the «panigyri of Xilopanayia» because tradition has it that men once fought each other, lashing out with laurel branches, for the privilege of the first dance with the woman he was in love with. (‘Xilo’ is Greek for wood but also used to mean fight or beating.) The panigyri lasts three days; after the icon of the Virgin is taken around the neighborhood in procession, pilgrims dance around an old tree and custom has it that the first single woman to join the dance will be wed within the year. The list of observances includes the feast of Ayios Mamas at Vounia on September 2, Ayios Sostis on September 7, Panayia Sto Vouno at Avessalo on September 8, Pano Stavros at Palia Mitata on September 14, Ayia Thekla at Skalvogianni on September 23, Ayia Anastasia at Pano Dipotata on October 29, Taxiarches at Moni Taxiarchon on November 8, Ayios Minas on November 11, the Ayia Triada at Mavra Voladia on the feast of the Ascension, Ayii Anargyri at Kalavatsa on July 1, Profitis Ilias at Vounia and Xiro Horio on July 20, Ayia Paraskevi at Kato Hora on July 26, Metamorphosi Sotiros at Pyrgos, Kalo Ampeli, and Livadi on August 6, Panayia Skopiani at Kallistro on August 15, Panayia at Pyrgos on August 16, Panayia Miliani on August 24, and Ayios Ioannis Prodromos at Sklavoyianni on August 29.