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Grape Harvest Festival

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The vineyards of Neuchâtel in honor! Marching bands and parades, a festival you should not miss!

Corso fleuri, Fête des Vendanges
Corso fleuri, Fête des Vendanges
  • Place
    • Neuchâtel
    Ort

Each year, the start of the grape harvests in the Neuchâtel Country is celebrated on the last weekend in September. For three days, traffic is banished from the city centre so that revellers can make merry in the accustomed style amid an ambience of light, music and laughter. The grand night-time procession with "Guggenmusik" (or "Happy Music") takes place on the Friday night, but groups in costume are out and about all through the festival. The children's fancy-dress parade, a joyful and colourful event, is traditionally held on the Saturday afternoon. The Sunday afternoon floral procession also attracts a vast crown of onlookers. Punctuated by fanfares and peppered with humorous touches by some of the groups in costume, this parade carries on the tradition of the procession of the grape-harvest carts, decorated with flowers and loaded with the wine-growers' tools, which takes place at the end of the grape harvest.

Opening hours
Opening hours
  • From 22 Sep 2023 to 24 Sep 2023
Prices
Prices
  • Single price
    FDV bracelet - "Green"
    • CHF 10.-
  • FDV bracelet - "Orange"
    • CHF 2.-
Good to know
Good to know
    • Payments at the stalls at the Grape Harvest Festival (FDV) will only be possible with the FDV bracelet, payment with cash and cards is not allowed (except for carousels)
    • FDV bracelets can be purchased before the festival ("green") at the TransN ticket offices or during the festival ("orange") at numerous stands
    • The FDV "green" bracelets offer the following advantages: free transport (zones 10/11/14/15/30) and a standing place at the Sunday flower parade
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