Friday, September 11, 2015

The Zundert Van Gogh flowerparade Dating from 1936, the annual...





















The Zundert Van Gogh flowerparade

Dating from 1936, the annual Zundert Flower Parade (Bloemencorso Zundert) sees dozens of imaginative floats created by hundreds of volunteers parade through the streets of ‘Dutch Master’ Vincent Willem van Gogh’s hometown. 

Bloemencorso Zundert is the largest flower parade in the world. The parade takes place on the first Sunday of September. The floats are large artworks made of steel wire, cardboard, papier-mâché and flowers. In the Bloemencorso Zundert, only dahlias are used to decorate the objects and it takes  thousands of them just to cover one float. The Corso is also a competition. A professional and independent jury decides which float is the most beautiful and which hamlet will be crowned the winner of that year.


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