Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th May 2012 - Céret

La fete de la Cerise 

Ceret cherry festival and 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

 

10h00 - 13h - Official opening of the 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
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...
Free ’little train’ taking you into and out of the centre of Ceret throughout the festival

 

 

For more details, ring the Office du Tourisme on 04 68 87 00 53

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