Great Family-Friendly Festivals
Fête Du Citron, February 15—March 3
What to do with 145,000 tons of citrus fruit(柑橘属水果) for two whole weeks? Artistic masters create a series of mind-blowing sculptures and patterns exhibited around the city of Menton, in the south of France. Highlights include the Golden Fruit Parades that occur every Sunday, which are an endless series of coaches, entertainers, bands, folk groups, dance groups and citrus fruit fioats.
Haro Wine Festival, June 28-30
Forget food fights. How about a wine fight? The wine fight, a feature of Wine Festival in Haro, a quiet town in Spain, reunites thousands of locals and tourists and uses more than 130,000 liters of wine during the battle. There's even a kid-friendly battle a couple of days before using grape juice.
Guca Trumpet Festival, August 8—11
Held in Guca in the middle of Serbia, it's regarded as the world's largest brass(铜管乐器) music festival. Each band gets to play three tunes as folk dancers dance for an enthusiastic audience. Visitors become part of Serbia for a night, dancing to brass band concerts all night long.
Cascamorras, September 6-9
In the towns of Baza and Guadix in Spain, the athletic festival is a whole lot of fun. Villagers from Baza invite tourists to get covered in black olive oil and brightly-colored paste(糊) in neighboring town Guadix.
In Baza, people run down the hill into the village and in Guadix through the town, ending in the evening when they're attacked by water from villagers and then sprayed with foam(泡沫). The chosen villager "Cascamorras" must try to stay clean.