Grape Festival – Merano

October 16-17, 2021. Good food, good wine, folklore with traditional dance and music.

The Grape Festival takes place in Merano, in the province of Bolzano, every third weekend of October, this year on Saturday 16 October and Sunday 17 October 2021,

The event, first organized in 1886, coincides with the final period of the grape and apple harvest. Per tradition, is accompanied by good food, good wine and lots of folklore with traditional dances and music.

In 2021 there will not be the traditional procession but the allegorical floats will be exhibited in the most representative places of the city.

Concerts by local bands and choirs from South Tyrol are scheduled to sing in 4 different squares in the city

The climax of the festival is reached on Sunday, the day when the great parade of allegorical wagons is held. The real particularity of this parade in traditional clothes are the two most famous allegorical wagons: the Apple Crown and the Kundschafter, a huge bunch of grapes weighing about 300 kg.

Free entrance

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