Ideas by Month - September
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Jerez de la Frontera, Spain: Autumn Festival
With events related to wine, flamenco music, Andalucian horses and gastronomy, this festival is a fantastic way to celebrate Spain's grape harvest. The Spanish know how to put on a show - opening the festival with a grape-treading demonstration and fireworks display, and following up with several weeks of events including free outdoor concerts, flamenco, food and wine sampling, puppet shows, theatre performances and horseback parades. Join the festivities!
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Perth, Western Australia: Kings Park and Botanic Gardens Wildflower Festival
Spring is a beautiful time of year in Western Australia, with the annual blossoming of the wildflower. And there is no better place to enjoy the colourful spectacle than at the Perth Wildflower Festival. The festival attracts visitors from across the globe, offering spectacular displays of the wildflowers, musical entertainment and a relaxed and rustic venue to enjoy with friends.
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Montreux, Switzerland: The Gourmet Route Walk
Taking in the vineyards of Montreux-Vevey, the annual five-kilometre Gourmet Route starts in Chailly-sur-Montreux and makes several stop-offs along the way, where walkers can sample the specialities of local cooks and the best accompanying wines. The Gourmet Route Walk (Route Gourmande) is a member of the international Conrery and attracts more than 2000 visitors each year from across Europe and even Japan.
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Berlin, Germany: Musikfest
Berlin's Musikfest offers lovers of symphonic and chamber music more than two weeks of special events, including outstanding orchestras, ensembles and soloists, performing at the Berline Philharmonie, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and other venues. Enjoy a feast of performances by some of the world's greatest orchestras: 2007 highlights included the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony. There are also many lectures, film series and readings taking place during the festival period.
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Tuscany, Italy: Grape Harvest - Vendemmia
September is the month of vendemmia (Itailan for 'vintage') in Tuscany. The centuries-old tradition of wine making in Tuscany, land of Chianti and Brunello, makes the harvest of grapes a very special time of the year to visit, allowing the traveller to not only enjoy the picturesque countryside and the Italian culture, but the produce of the region also. Enjoy the whole process from start to finish by visiting some of the region's markets.
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Barcelona, Spain: Festa de la Merce
One of Barcelona's largest festivals takes place as a celebration of the banishing of a plague of locusts from the city in 1687 by the Virgin of Mercy. A program of more than 100 concerts and hundreds of fringe events is guaranteed to keep everyone entertained over the four-day festival. Enjoy the ancient Barcelonian tradition of castellera (building towers with human bodies), battled out between local teams. On the final day, entry to Barcelona's museums is free, and a stunning fireworks display brings the party to a close.
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Rotterdam, Netherlands: World Port Festival
Want to know what goes on in one of the world's biggest ports? For three days every year Rotterdam's harbour divulges all its secrets to the public. This festival is filled with a huge range of maritime, educational and cultural activities for the visitor including tours of the ships, rescue and aviation demonstrations, boat cruises and bus trips and shows on and around the water.
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