Feast: Battle of Vino
Feast: Battle of Vino
Location: Rioja, Spain
So is celebrated: with a lot of red wine. Participants fill their spray guns and shoot on a hill. Then he goes to the food.
Date: June 29
Dress code: white clothes - and without a doubt goggles and water pistol
Fest: Battle Rocket of Chios
Location: Chios, Greece
It is celebrated: two communities shoot with flares and fireworks at the church of each opposing community. Up to 60,000 missiles are fired. The church that loses is the church that receives the most blows.
Date: night to Easter Sunday
Dress code: the best long-sleeved
Party: Highland Games
Location: Braemar, Scotland
This is celebrated with disciplines such as throwing wood, throwing stones, wrestling and throwing hammer in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators and against a backdrop of traditional bagpipe music. The goal is to find the strongest man in Scotland.
Date: September
Dress code: a kilt of course
Party: Boryeong Mud
Location: Boreyeong, South Korea
It celebrates: a huge slump, where more than one million people find themselves in tons of extra sludge on the beach.
Date: July 18th
Dress code: swimsuit or bikini
To learn more about other festivals around the world, check out fetes-traditionnelles.fr/ website.