Grape Festival – Merano

October 14-15, 2023. Good food and wine, traditional dances and music.

On Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 October 2023, as every third weekend of October, The Grape Festival takes place in Merano, in the province of Bolzano

The Grape Festival, 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.

Concerts by local bands and choirs from South Tyrol will animate 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.

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