The Flower Festival in Debrecen is billed as “a myriad of flowers, a wonderful festive atmosphere, and star performers to boot,” according to Seeuinhungary.com.
One of the most popular events in Hungary, the festival of flowers attracts large crowds year after year, rewarding them with memorable experiences. This August the city of Debrecen hosted its 41st Flower Festival.
Over the years, several million visitors have participated in commemorating St. Stephen and the celebration of new bread in Debrecen. The bread is baked out of flour ground of recently harvested wheat. Since the festival’s inception, spectators have had a chance to see hundreds of floats made of floral arrangements and several tens of thousands of parade participants.
The festival has recently evolved into a weeklong fiesta with mostly free programs offering a wide variety of events and novelties each year.
Preparation for the colorful march on August 20 starts months earlier. Traditionally, the floats display imaginative scenes that are made exclusively of floral components. There may be as many as 3 million flowers used for the arrangements, most often including asters, carnations, dahlias, gerberas, pine or spruce twigs, and dried flowers.
Well-known Hungarian and international artistic groups, dance troupes, orchestras, bands, and majorette groups, interspersed among the floats, give spectacular performances.
Each of the floats decorated in flowers depicts a scene and joins the art ensembles in the parade along the main street of the city to Nagyerdei Sadion, where the spectators may take a closer look at the individual floral arrangements.
One of the most popular events in Hungary, the festival of flowers attracts large crowds year after year, rewarding them with memorable experiences. This August the city of Debrecen hosted its 41st Flower Festival.
Over the years, several million visitors have participated in commemorating St. Stephen and the celebration of new bread in Debrecen. The bread is baked out of flour ground of recently harvested wheat. Since the festival’s inception, spectators have had a chance to see hundreds of floats made of floral arrangements and several tens of thousands of parade participants.
The festival has recently evolved into a weeklong fiesta with mostly free programs offering a wide variety of events and novelties each year.
Preparation for the colorful march on August 20 starts months earlier. Traditionally, the floats display imaginative scenes that are made exclusively of floral components. There may be as many as 3 million flowers used for the arrangements, most often including asters, carnations, dahlias, gerberas, pine or spruce twigs, and dried flowers.
Well-known Hungarian and international artistic groups, dance troupes, orchestras, bands, and majorette groups, interspersed among the floats, give spectacular performances.
Each of the floats decorated in flowers depicts a scene and joins the art ensembles in the parade along the main street of the city to Nagyerdei Sadion, where the spectators may take a closer look at the individual floral arrangements.
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