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Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th May 2010 - Céret
La fete de la Cerise - Ceret cherry festival
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Festival des Bandas
The annual cherry festival in Céret is a colourful weekend of stone spitting, music, dancing and entertainment in the streets, not to mention the inventive recipes involving cherries served up in the local restaurants.... or why not try a glass of cherry beer, cherry wine, cherry pie, cherry pasty, cherry burger, cherries on toast, cherries with spam........?
Cherry market both days (Saturday from 15h, Sunday from 10h)
Programme
Saturday
10h00 - 13h - Official opening of the 16th cherry festival followed by the Parade of the ’bandas’, 200 musicians from bands from throughout the region in front of cafés Pablo and France
15h - Catalan dancing with « Alegria » in the streets
15h30 - Cherry stoning competition (front of town hall)
16h00 - Cherry stone spitting contest! (place des arcades)
17h - bands
1830 - Apero with concert from the ’bandas’ in the place de la Liberté
20h Open air dinner - Place de la liberté (reservations on 04 68 87 00 53 followed by music from the bands
Sunday
10h Opening of the cherry market
10h30 - 17h30 -
Music from the bandas around the café terasses, cherry stoning and spitting competition, Castells, Sardane......
17h - closing of the festival with prize draw of the now famous Cerise en Or (golden cherry jewel), music and dancing in front of the Arcades
ALL WEEKEND
- Shop windows decorated with a cherry theme
- Céret school children present their painting
- Jeanne Luce Marcouly signs her book "La Cerise"
- Restaurants offer cherry based menus and cafés serve the latest ’cherry beer’
- Local products for sale with cherry base
- Children’s area with bouncy castle, candy floss etc - Place du Barri.
There will be a free ’little train’ taking you into and out of the centre of Ceret throughout the festival (to be confirmed for 2009)
For more details, ring the Office du Tourisme on 04 68 87 00 53|]
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