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5° Festival of Sweet chestnut. October 9, 2005. The desire for coming there in 2005… CASTEIL In the local press: This Sunday October 9, a large market will gather in our village of Piedmont, a great number of producers of the Catalan soil, merchants of traditional products and even an enormous vacuum attic open to the private individuals. The market of producers one counts already more than one about fifty registered exhibitors. Impossible to circumvent at the beginning of season of sweet chestnuts, come to oxygenate itself this weekend with Casteil, among the coloured foliations, with the foot of the solid mass of Canigou. Animation will be permanent 9 with 18h, you will meet bandaged and folk groups, and more than 400 kilos of sweet chestnuts roasted await you. You will find a whole pallet of products of the soil, more succulent mets of gastronomy, with the traditional objet d'art. The flanor will be able to walk to his liking in this sympathetic nerve village, to visit prestigious Abbaye of St-Martin of Canigou or côtoyer the deer and other boarders of the animalist park. The children will not be forgotten, horse-gears and inflatable structures will be at their disposal. That will move this weekend in Conflent. A good pretext to leave this day your armchair there. The organizers still envisage this year a figure record of visitors. There will be for all the tastes. A date to be retained for a sympathetic nerve left in family. We highly advise you to reserve your places in the various restaurants of the village or the neighbourhoods. Small history, the festival of sweet chestnut in figures, before 2005. Organized for the first time in 2001, 5 years, the festival of sweet chestnut became an event impossible to circumvent of animation in this canton of Piedmont. Very appreciated of a public of any age, this demonstration gathers the in love ones with gastronomy, within the framework enchanter of the solid mass of Canigou. In 2001. 400 visitors in full November. In 2002. More than 2000 visitors, in spite of snow and the cold. In 2003, the bad weather cause a drop in the number of visitors, however, more than 300 kilos of roasted sweet chestnuts are distributed. In 2004, the organization advances the date and moves the place of the demonstration. It is the euphoria, of the hundreds of vehicles, more than 4000 visitors, more than 400 kilos of sweet chestnuts roasted. The organizers knew to create an animation which year by year becomes extensive and is being perennialized. Proof in is, the surge impressing of public and professionals who attend the site of the fête.
For the fifth edition which takes place this year; the organizers took the initiative right now by envisaging a parking of more than 400 places. Always more animations; New in 2005, several very instructive exposures.
The organizers envisage this year more than 6000 visitors. Craftsmen, tradesmen, exhibitors: you register Before September 15, 2005. Information and information: Town hall of Casteil: 04 68 05 67 63
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