Sept 16th, 2014: Bloemencorso Zundert

[xoxoxoBruce]

Bloemencorso is Dutch for flower parade. Zundert, a small town in the Netherlands located at the Belgian border, and host to the world’s biggest flower parade.

In Zundert, the flower parade is a social event. Each and every person in Zundert, young and old, is involved in some way or other in construction of the floats and the keeping of the flower fields. The older members are often responsible for planting and growing the dahlias, while the younger people are responsible for designing the floats, building the scale models and overseeing the construction, the details, the coloring and all other aspects of creating the huge floats.

Every year the parade in Zundert has 20 floats, put together by 20 hamlets. Tents are erected in the spring at each hamlet and construction continues all summer. It appears from the pictures the floats are people powered. I don't see any other propulsion units.



Your can see these wonderful floats for 2014, 2013 and 2012.