Menton Lemon Festival.

It is an event, attracting over 230,000 visitors each year. It involves more than 300 professionals and requires an average 145 tons of citrus fruits. As well as the important citrus exhibitions, you can admire the daytime and evening parades throughout Menton.

Nicknamed the “Cité des Citrons” (City of Lemons), every year the city of Menton in the Alpes-Maritimes celebrates this local product. The Fête du Citron is an event unique in the world, featuring giant designs made exclusively from citrus fruits and floats decorated with oranges and lemons.

Ever since the 15th century, Menton has been a major producer of lemons. At the beginning of the 20thcentury, this Mediterranean city became the biggest producer of this fruit on the continent. In 1929, an hotelier came up with the idea of organizing a flower and citrus fruit exhibition. It proved so successful that the following year, the festival spilled out into the streets with carts carrying orange and lemon trees. It became increasingly successful over the following few years and so in 1934, the municipality decided to create the Fête du Citron.

Each year a theme is chosen for the festival. This year theme (February 15 to March 5) is called 20,000 leagues under the sea.
The festival dates are from February 15 to March 5.

Website : www.fete-du-citron.com

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Also another event of interest in the coming days is the Angouleme International Comic Strip Festival.
Since 1974 this Festival has been celebrating the “Ninth Art“.
It is now a key international event for professionals and the general public alike. January 30 – February 2, 2014.

Website : www.bdangouleme.com