Canada

Geplaatst op dinsdag 01 mei 2012 @ 00:28 , 1083 keer bekeken

OTTAWA  12 - 23 mei

Tulip Festival
Het tulip festival is het grootste tulpen festival ter wereld en wordt ieder jaar gehouden in de maand mei. Dit jaar voor de 64ste keer. Als dank voor de gastvrijheid tijdens de oorlogsjaren stuurt de Koninklijke familie ieder jaar tulpen naar de stad. Er worden tijdens dit festival ook concerten gehouden.

The story of Canada’s tulip festival begins in an Ottawa Civic Hospital room during World War II.

At the time, several members of the Dutch Royal family were exiled in Canada. One of them, Princess Juliana, gave birth to a daughter, Margriet, in 1943, and the Canadian government declared the maternity room Dutch soil so that Margriet could keep her mother’s citizenship.

In 1945, Princess Juliana, back home in the Netherlands, expressed her gratitude with a gift of 100,000 tulip bulbs. From this gesture of friendship grew the largest tulip festival in the world. Today, the eighteen day event celebrates the tulip’s annual bloom with over three million flowers and draws over 600,000 people.

Although crowding in front of the tulip beds for pictures is undeniably the main draw, the festival also offers many other free attractions, including theatre, acrobatics, dance and performances by international and homegrown superstars (a 12-year-old Alanis Morissette made her debut here in 1987).

And when you get hungry, you can wander through the International Pavilion, which symbolizes the festival’s roots in international friendship with the food and culture of twenty-four countries.

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Photo Gallery: Canadian Tulip Festival 2009

The Canadian Tulip Festival celebrates its 64th anniversary in 2016. In commemoration of this historic milestone, join partners, attractions and hundreds of thousands of Festival visitors this May in marking this achievement.

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The Canadian Tulip Festival preserves the local heritage of Canada’s role in freeing the Dutch during World War II, and the symbolic tulip, a gift in perpetuity to the Canadian people for providing a safe harbour to the Dutch Royal Family at that time.

The festival’s mandate is to preserve this heritage and celebrate the tulip as a symbol of international friendship by engaging local organizers, volunteers, artists, performers, tourists and festival-goers in what has become an annual ritual of spring and one of Canada’s best loved and well-known cultural events.

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The Canadian Tulip Festival is celebrating its 64th commemorative edition in 2016

First held in the year of 1953 as a Board of Trade initiative, under the inspiration of the internationally renowned photographer Malak Karsh, The Canadian Tulip Festival has grown to become the largest Tulip Festival in the world.

This annual ritual of spring welcomes more than 500,000 visitors every year to admire the 3 million tulips that are in bloom in the National Capital during this period.

Website: http://tulipfestival.ca

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