Sometimes colorful carnival, sometimes tasteful and minimalist, sometimes poetic and often just hopelessly romantic – the installations of thetemps de flors“ 2017.
Rebellion against Franco
Numerous legends surround the creation of the flower festival. According to some sources, the festival was a kind of resistance to Franco’s dictatorship. In any case, it is certain that the flower show opened for the first time in 1954.
Kitsch and art blur
This year, the colorful spring festival “Temps de Flors” will take place for the 62nd time in the old town of Girona. One can argue about the value of art. not about the entertainment value. The boundaries between kitsch and art are fluid. Year after year, “Temps de Flors” is a crowd puller and works as perfect city marketing.
Everyone joins in
The colorful spring festival at the beginning of May is also a testament to the community’s sense of community. Everyone seems to make their contribution – whether small and fine with a bouquet on the front door, opulent with colorful tendrils in front of the window or frothy with a flower pot orgy in an old bathtub in the patio of a historic city palace – no one likes to stay out of here and just be one Walking admiration in the neighborhood asked for a chat.
There is also a lot on offer in culinary terms
In the cafés there are flower cakes, the boutiques present floral dresses, a bed stretches in the window of a furniture shop, the restaurants serve flower menus and the A cappella festival, which takes place at the same time, provides the right music for everything. Year after year we stroll curiously through all the streets and let ourselves be enchanted by the very own atmosphere of a lively city that shows how beautiful togetherness and provincial life can be today. Let yourself be enchanted by the floral ambience!
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