Campo Maior hold from Saturday over one million visitors to admire the hundred adorned streets with local by paper flowers
A few hours of the start of another edition of these festivals, the field house Maior, there are still those who are working in paper flowers, singing at the same time, traditional skirts, a typical genre that Alentejo town.
Despite the enthusiasm that reigns in the preparation of the festival also fears that it may come to end because the younger ones are uninterested up the project, and some of the old too. It’s worth it.
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and that this tradition is not lost in the darkness of the times is being prepared the candidacy of People’s Parties to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Organization Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Another characteristic feature of the field of People’s Parties Bigger is the fact that they only come true when the people want and are prepared by population that months before beginning to “manufacture” the paper flowers that will decorate the village streets, especially in the historic center.
People’s Parties were performed for the last time in 2011, after a gap of seven years, and this year for the first time, entries will be charged, costing four euros a daily ticket, with free parking.
Residents or natural Campo Maior, and relatives to the second degree, workers in the county and children up to the age of 10 are exempt from paying entries.
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