Since , the Lemon Festival has lit up the French Riviera in yellow. The famous citrus, cultivated not far from there, dresses all kinds of scenery and serves as a pretext for a beautiful party for 15 days under the sun of the Mediterranean.
To discover on Irresistible Riviera in video and photos. The Lemon Festival is first discovered along the Bioves garden behind the casino, a few steps from the seaside.
Large citrus sculptures made from lemons and oranges change each year to the sandstone of the chosen themes. For this year the theme of fantastic worlds livened up the city. A family atmosphere reigns, young and old, tourists and azureen stroll in the middle of all these beautiful achievements. The space can be visited every day during the party. The garden of lights offers beautiful illuminations, fruit facilities.
A footbridge overlooks the facilities of thousands of oranges and lemons that are regularly changed to preserve their appearance. This is one of the highlights where parades roam the seaside. Dancers, floats and installations of all kinds parade among the spectators. Between twenty and thirty thousand spectators attend this show either directly in contact with the animations in the middle of the carnivals or comfortably installed in tribune.
Party and confetti fly to the rhythm of music. In addition to the floats, decorated with colorful citrus, dancers and dancers dancing to the rhythm of the samba gag the atmosphere. Strange creatures mounted on long stilts to better frighten the public, navigate in the middle of the crowd that asks for more. Neighboring fanfares also mingle with the party. Incredible metal monsters articulated cylinders representing this year a dragon and a kind of dragonfly, oscillate from one platform to another accompanied by their dancing escorts.
