Thursday, 11 July 2013

Harvest Festival Vendimia - Mendoza



Mendoza in Argentina celebrates the season’s first grapes harvest with holy water, this festival lasts for a month long and all streets of the city fill with tourists and visitors who come to see parades and other traditional performances and dances, crowds cheer and long to see the competition of beauty queens of their regions.

The festival hosts a very special show at the big amphitheater where musicians, entertainers, and dancers perform and show their art before Harvest queen is announced.




After choosing the Harvest queen the festival ends with beautiful fireworks, coloring the sky and eating and drinking continues. The Festival held annually on last Sunday of February and archbishop of Mendoza starts the festival for blessing the harvest.



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