Limassol Wine Festival

Last week of September, limassol hosts a wine festival in the municipal gardens. Lasting a week, it is a very enjoyable summer evening under the stars. Smell of Souvlakia : the bar-be-que meat, favourite national food - fills the air. Children throng the many stalls and grown ups meet friends and family and enjoy a meal together.

Again it is special for the Ambience that is very peculiar to it. I think if you were to blindfold me and leave me there with no sense of clock or calendar, I would recognise it instantly as the wine festival. Almost all local and village wineries put up stalls there and offer free wine for tasting and there are folk dancers who invite the visitors to the wine-crushing tub under the watchful eyes of a giant statue of a Cypriot vine grower in traditional costume. Song, dance, food, and drink it is all there to please Dionysus, the God of wine which is why the festival is said to have started in ancient times.

Check out the festive Spirit in 'Images' section