Lovers of good food and wine gather every year at the festival of the new harvest wine at Niagara. This year it will be held from 14 to 22 June.
This is one of the three most popular festivals of this kind in Canada. World-famous wines and unique culinary delights will please all the guests.
More than 30 factories in the region of Ontario take part in the festival offering tours and tastings through which visitors can learn more about the manufacturing process of this ancient drink, visit the grape fields, partake in the harvest collection and taste juice at every stage of fermentation. Also during this week holiday everybody is welcomed to dinners serving famous roasted chestnuts, and wine tastings where one can purchase a bottle of wine.
Annually Niagara New Vintage Festival, Niagara Wine Festival and Niagara Icewine Festival attract thousands of tourists to Canada.
Winter trout festival in Hwacheon-gun is the beautiful place to enjoy winter fishing. Every year thousands of tourists come there to eat fish and relax sledging.
The citizens of Spain admire festivals where they can look at others and show their advantages. It is worth to recall at least their numerous battles with food including La Tomatina as one of the most famous ones. However, at the festival El Cascamorras nobody throws food. Instead, people out stains onto themselves with oily substance and try to stain others.
Ice-cream in Italy meets a ready market, especially its local kind called as gelato. Italians love and appreciate gelato so much that they would not mind dedicating the entire festival to this dessert.
Harbin city is the capital of Heilongjiang province located in Northeast China. During the long winter months, the temperature here may reach -20 degree. These days International Ice Festival is held.
Today in the American city of Gilroy, California starts the festival for "those who love it hot" – foodies from all over the world gather here to pay homage to His Majesty Garlic.
On March 30, in Canada Toronto subway celebrates its 60th anniversary. The first subway line opened under the Yonge Street and consisted of 12 stations, the trains’ speed could only compete with bikes’. Now Canadian subway is three times quicker and has 69 underground stations.
Between mountains and the Mediterranean Sea south-eastward from Barcelona, Catalan city Sitges is located. Having been under dictatorship of General Franco, it was, after all, the only place in Spain where counterculture throve. The city gained the character of bohemian one at the end of XIX century when there painter Santiago Rusiñol used to reside and work. Nowadays Sitges is known for popular beaches and living night life.
Certainly, among the kindest festivals also considered as the most joyful ones in the world we may recall those, which founders were children. Sapporo Snow Festival or Festival of Snow Statues in Sapporo should be numbered among such festivals.
This is one of the three most popular festivals of this kind in Canada. World-famous wines and unique culinary delights will please all the guests.
