Greek Seaside Town Explodes Into Flour War (PHOTOS)

For a few hours on a single day every year, the prim and elegant Greek seaside town of Galaxidi explodes into frantic childishness.

Riotous groups of residents pelt each other — and unsuspecting visitors — with bags of dyed flour, in a Holi-like end-of-carnival tradition thought to date back to the town’s period of maritime glory more than a century ago.

Revelers take a brake as they celebrate Clean Monday with a flour war, a unique colorful flour fight marking the end of the carnival season in the port town of Galaxidi, some 200 kilometers west of Athens, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Local revelers celebrate Clean Monday with a flour war, a unique colorful flour fight marking the end of the carnival season in the port town of Galaxidi, some 200 kilometers west of Athens, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Local revelers celebrate Clean Monday with a flour war, a unique colorful flour fight marking the end of the carnival season in the port town of Galaxidi, some 200 kilometers west of Athens, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A local reveler throws flour to celebrate Clean Monday and to mark the end of the carnival season in the port town of Galaxidi, some 200 kilometers west of Athens, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

The Huffington Post