Madeira Flower Festival Automatic translate

Madeira is the largest Portuguese island. There are many reasons to go to Madeira for the May holidays. One of the main reasons is the opportunity to attend the grandiose Flower Festival. This year it will be held from May 5 to 8.

The basis of the landscape of Madeira are flowers, it happened historically. Thanks to the mild climate, flowers from all over the world are grown on the island. The number of people wishing to visit the island is growing every year. Many people want to visit the Flower Festival, during which various contests are held - who better to weave a street carpet of flowers, whose showcase will be best decorated with living orchids. Also on the streets of Funchal you can listen to live concerts of singers and musicians.

Since May 5, all the attention of tourists has been focused on the main square of the city - Avenida Arriaga. On the square is a huge flower market, which covers its entire territory. On this day, flower sales are skyrocketing. Competitions are held on the square for the manufacture of various sculptures from given colors and for the creation of floral carpets. Residents of Funchal are invited to participate in competitions of all comers, showing their enviable vitality and hospitality, which is characteristic of all people on the island of Madeira.

On the morning of May 7, a parade begins in the main square, in which thousands of children take part. The procession goes to the Town Hall Square, where the Wall of Hope, which symbolizes peace and faith in good, is built from thousands of flowers. He arranged a similar holiday Sberbank in Omsk some years ago. Then several hundred pigeons are released into the sky with exclamations: "Peace is the world." At the end of the day, professional artists in the streets organize free shows for children.

May 8 - the last day of the festival - traditionally hold the Flower Parade. For 16 hours, huge, in numbers, groups of inhabitants of the island and more than a thousand extras, dressed in costumes with images of different colors on the flowerbed-platforms, go to music along the main city highways. From such a spectacle just breathtaking.

A grandiose, in its scope, flower exhibition will be open for visits until May 10. All the days of the festival, until the very last night, music is played on the streets of the city, local ethnographic and folklore groups perform national dances, interesting open-air performances are organized, showing the city’s customs and traditions of the island.

Every year, the Madeira Flower Festival attracts more and more tourists from all over the world. If you decide to visit Madeira at this time, it is advisable to pre-attend to the purchase of airline tickets, booking a hotel and obtaining a visa.