8 Most Flower Festivals Around The World

Flower festivals are celebrated all over the world and almost around the year.Here we present to most fascinating display of flower in defferent parts of the world.
  

Bloemencorso

The Bloemencorso, a Dutch word which means "flower parade", are held in many towns in the Netherlands and Belgium. In a parade of this kind the floats, cars and in some cases boats are magnificently decorated or covered in flowers. Each parade has its own character, charm and theme. Zundert holds the largest flower parade in the world.

Jersey Battle Of Flower

 The Jersey Battle of Flowers is an annual carnival held in the Channel Island of Jersey in the second Thursday of August. The festival consists of music, funfairs, dancers, majorettes and a parade of flower floats alongside various street entertainers.

Spalding Flower Parede

The Spalding Flower Parade held in Spalding, Lincolnshire, began life as a celebration to mark the Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in 1935 and focused predominantly on tulips, which were abundant at the time. In the following years, the event grew to involve an entire week dedicated to the beauty of tulips and ‘Tulip Week’ was born, involving a 25 mile walk and tour designed to show off the best growers in the area.

Genzano Infiorata Flower Festivals 

                             

 Local artists cover the entire street of Belardo with a floral carpet with patterns inspired by religious art, shapes and famous paintings.

Brussels' Flower Carpet

The Brussels' Flower Carpet is a special event that comes every two years. During this event a huge carpet of flower is laid out on the main square in Brussels in front of the City Hall. The festivities started on the evening of August 12 and the flower carpet was opened for public view on August 13 and will remain open till August 15. 

Batalla De flores , Valencia

Batalla de Flores is celebrated in Valencia, Spain, to mark the end of the month long Feria de Julio, a traditional fiesta of various cultural and entertainment events. It starts with a long parade of enormous and gorgeous floats pulled by horses and filled with young girls dressed to the theme of the float. Once the floats have made a couple of rounds around the route, the battle breaks out. The onlookers and the float crews pelt flowers on each other and generally make merry. The girls even equip themselves with tennis rackets to defend the attack.

Festival Of The Flower , Medellin

The Feria de Las Flores or Flower Festival the city of Medellin hosts a week-long schedule of events and festivities including the world famous parade of silleteros. The first Festival of the Flowers took place on May 1, 1957 and lasted for five days with an exposition of flowers displayed in the Metropolitan Cathedral to celebrate Virgin Mary day. This flower parade represents the end of slavery when instead of flowers slaves carried men and women on their backs up steep hills. Since then, other events have been added like the International Pageant of the Flowers, the cavalcade, Guiness Records in 1996 and 1999, classic automobiles parade, Orchids exposition, among others.

Chiang Mai Flower Festival

The Chiang Mai Flower Festival takes place on the first weekend of February. The flower beds in public spaces all around the town are especially beautiful at this time of year. Everywhere there can be found gorgeous displays of yellow and white chrysanthemums, and the Damask Rose, a variety found only in Chiang Mai. Also, the pink and purplish Dendrobium orchids, and the yellow Daoruang. The real focus of this Chiang Mai festival, however, is the public garden of Suan Buak Haad on the south-western corner of the moat.

In some ways the best part of the Flower Festival is the Flower Festival Parade. The flower parade gaily decorated floats, pretty girls, and hill tribe people in their colorful costumes moves very slowly down the streets and stops frequently. Dancers in traditional costumes perform Thai dances, and those taking part in the flower parade hand out roses to the spectators.