15:54 16.02.2011
on the Cote d'Azur will host a festival of lemons
This coming Friday, February 18 at the Cote d'Azur of France begins during the noisy and colorful festivals. The most famous of them, perhaps, is the Carnival in Nice, which this year runs until March 8. It is believed that the tradition of the meeting laid the Count of Provence Charles II of Anjou, who made a holiday in these places back in 1294. Most similar to the modern carnival it was much later, when the city was the first real pageant. This happened in 1822 in honor of the Duke of Savoy, Victor Emmanuel I. Pazhi masked fearlessly fought with flowers and scattered the crowd small round candies caramel sugar, which in colloquial Italian, called "confetti".
In our time, the carnival - a striking two-week event that attracts thousands of tourists from around the world. The holiday is filled with colorful parades of giant figures, elegant floral battles and incendiary parties. Every day the streets of Nice ride colorfully decorated carts with giant puppets made of papier-mache. Tuples, decorated with thousands of fresh bouquets, participate in the "Battle of the Flowers" in which of the huge baskets on the heads of spectators spilling millions of roses, cyclamen, mimosa, violets and carnations. A night in the continuation of merry holiday you can enjoy musical performances and fireworks.
Along with the carnival in Nice kicks off another big deal event - the festival of lemons in the city of Menton. It originates in the 19 century, when the owners of local hotels have decided that the European elite resting want something new. Today it is the biggest holiday in the French Riviera after the carnival in Nice, every year it attracts up to 400,000 tourists.
lemons from Menton - is king among lemons, as the warm climate makes it possible to grow them all year round, and a small town nestled between Monaco and Italy just begs become the capital of the fruit. The biggest crop is removed in March and April and the festival marks the coming harvest of citrus.
main arena holidays is a botanical garden city. Three times during the festival on Sunday, the parade is held along the coast of the Golden Fruit ", and each year, he dedicated a new topic. Moving through the streets of huge ramps, laden with fruit. To create the most incredible figures, some of which reach at a height of 10 meters and goes up to 130 tons of citrus fruit, not just lemons, but tangerines and oranges, and grapefruits. Residents and tourists dress up in bizarre costumes mostly "citrus" colors, the venue for concerts, contests and fireworks.
Throughout the festival, which in 2011 will be held until March 9, anyone can taste the new varieties of citrus, as well as a drink and sweets made with "the kings holiday.
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