Wednesday 11 May 2016

History of the Haro Wine Festival


History of the Haro Wine Festival



The Haro Wine Festival is one of the most major wine festivals in Spain and was pronounced a festival of touristic and national interest in 1965.

Introduction


Haro
Plaza Major, Haro
The Haro Wine festival is celebrated yearly in La Rioja region of northern Spain. The famous town from where the festival originated is called Haro and it is know for its high quality Rioja Vino and his yearly battle of wine (La Batalla de Vino) celebration which takes place every year on the 29th of June, Saint Peter’s Day (El dia de San Pedro). It is one of the most major wine festivals in Spain and it was declared a festival of touristic and national interest in 1965. From 2004, a different type of special wine battle festival was started for young Children.

History of the Haro Wine festival

It dates back to the 12th century to a land dispute between the people of Haro and the neighboring village, Miranda del Ebro. King Ferdinand the  Third of Castille would finally solve the issue in 1237 via an executive letter which would later served the Judge Sancho Martinez de Leiva as a legal basis for establishing the legal boundaries between the two neighboring cities. The Judge Sancho also instructed that Haro’s town officials mark their properties lines with the town’s purple banners every year on San Pedro’s Day as well as the first Sunday of each September. If they failed to complete the task, the land would then belong to Miranda del Ebro. To ensure the completion of the task, a procession to the Bilibio cliffs was organized on every 29th June. The battle seemed to have occurred around 1710 for the first time. Based on the records after attending the mass and worshipping San Pedro the patron saint, a celebration broke out in which people started throwing wine at each other; and this is how the famous tradition started and would later gain a huge popularity in the decade of 1945-1955. During that time the tradition was named “war of Wine” which would eventually be changed to the battle of the wine in 1965.

The Haro wine festival nowadays


Haro Wine
Haro Wine Festival
These days, the Haro Town attracts many tourists for the festival, its famous quality of Tapas and the fact they are the major vine producer in the area who joined the locals to start the festivities under way a week before the battle itself. On the day itself, a parade of Horsemen leads everyone the 7km up to the Hermitage of San Felices de Bilibio, where a flag is ceremonially placed and a mass celebrated and then the battle can start.  Many wear white at the beginning of the fight and everyone holds containers such as jugs, bottles, buckets, water pistols or hose pipes until the whole crowd turn pink. It is recommended to not wear your best clothes as you will be everyone’s target. It will go on until midday around noon, then everybody go back to the city. In the Plaza de la Paz the celebration continues where people eat, dance, and compete each other and drinking. Then in the evening the Haro wine festival bullfights will take place in the town’s bullring. But the bulls used are female heifers known as “vaquillas”, smaller than the male ones and less dangerous.

You can reach Haro by driving or by bus which will take around 4-6 hours depending on the traffic. Or you can take a plane from Madrid to Bilbao, and then from there you can take a cab or drive it will take 2 hours in minimum. The last option would be to take the trains which are connected to the town, such as Logrono and Victoria.

Spain has quite a few wildly exuberant festivals, where people end up getting covered in everything from tomatoes to mud. Amongst all these, though, the Haro Batalla del Vino still stands out as being totally crazy, unadulterated, fabulous fun.

Saturday 7 May 2016

Haro Wine Festival
Haro Wine Festival
How It is celebrated

Held in the memorable, pleasant town of Haro, in the Rioja locale, around 100 kilometers south of Bilbao, a huge number of individuals turn up for one of Spain's most abundant celebrations each June 29th, Saint Peter's Day.

Haro is in what is currently known as Rioja Alta, where around 40% of the locale's vineyards can be found, and is a town completely committed to the grape. The Museo del Vino and the quantity of bodegas open to people in general all give proof of exactly how indispensable wine generation is to the town's economy. What's more, the Batalla del Vino is only a definitive festival of wine.

Everything develops, evidently, from an area question between two neighboring towns, Haro and Miranda De Ebro, going back to the tenth century. The fight itself appears to have begun toward the start of the twentieth century.

These days, the town of Haro, its 10,000 tenants joined by numerous, numerous guests, starts to get the merriments going a week prior to the fight itself. Guests can anticipate the way that Haro is eminence for the nature of its tapas, and also it being in the focal point of Spain's significant Rioja-delivering region. On the huge day itself, a parade of horsemen leads everybody the 7 km up to the Hermitage of San Felices de Bilibio, where a banner is ritualistically set and a mass celebrated. At that point, the fight initiates.

Haro Wine Festival


The vast majority wear white toward the start of the battle and everybody has holders, for example, containers, bottles, pails, water guns, hose funnels – anything, truly, and soon the entire world appears to turn totally pink. It's awful turning up and hoping to remain back and watch; everybody is an objective, so don't wear your best garments. This all proceeds until about late morning, when everybody goes down to the bull ring in the town and the adolescents pursue comparably youthful bulls around. What take after then are a long stretch of time of moving, eating, rivalries and drinking.

In case you're heading to Haro, from Madrid take the A1/E5 motorway north and from Bilbao the AP68 due south. The closest vast airplane terminal is Bilbao, yet the town benefits have rail joins with LogroƱo and Vitoria.

There are a few settled lodgings in the town – quite Occidental Los Agustinos, which is a parador-sort inn in an awesome old building that was at one time a community. There's likewise a campground adjacent with limit for 600 tents.

Spain has many uncontrollably overflowing celebrations, where individuals wind up getting secured in everything from tomatoes to mud. Amongst all these, however, the Haro Batalla del Vino still emerges as being absolutely insane, unadulterated, astonishing fun.

Friday 29 April 2016

Haro Wine FEST

"A WINE DAY CELEBRATION WORLDWIDE


An ocean of white cotton meets tsunamis of red wine, leaving purple shirts and their wearers doused head-to-toe in aged grape juice- - the indication of an effectively finished Haro Wine Festival. Consistently on June 29th, this residential community in northern Spain has a grape bash and sprinkle to praise its various wineries went to by a huge number of purple celebrating sightseers and wine drenched local people alike. From bullfighting to wine sampling to shirt dousing, there's an inclination and demeanor for everybody at Haro, the length of you like wine.

Haro wine festival/Travelloo
WINE FEST/ Travelloo


THE NIGHT Before THE Wine Fight 


Consistently a huge number of individuals plummet onto the town of Haro, Spain, for a weekend brimming with cutting loose out of appreciation for the nation's mark Spanish red wines that our broadly created all through the encompassing La Rioja district.

Inns and guesthouses book up well ahead of time of the Haro Wine Battle, so unless you have reservations a year out, outdoors in the close-by campgrounds is by all accounts the approach. After landing to the grounds, individuals start to make merriments, which after much brew and sangria, transforms into all out celebration.

Thursday 28 April 2016

Wine Festival "A REAL FUN"


Haro Wine Festival

Haro, an enchanting town in Spain's La Rioja locale, is most well known for it full-seasoned vino tinto, and the inebriating celebration that commends this delectable drink.

Haro Wine Festival is a celebration in the town of Haro in the La Rioja locale of northern Spain. It is held each year in the late spring and includes wine drinking rivalries and challenges and a Batalla de Vino (Battle of Wine) where wines are poured at each other from cans and buckets.


Wine Celebration/Travelloo
Wine Festival Spain


The festival happens on June 29, the day of the benefactor holy person San Pedro. The day starts at 7:00 am, with a parade of individuals old and youthful, wearing white shirts and red scarves, all conveying containers, jugs, botas and different sorts of holders loaded with red wine. Driven by the town's chairman, on horseback, the parade winds through the town to the Cliffs of Bilibio, where a mass is praised at the Hermitage of San Felices de Bilibio. After the mass a genuine free-for-all starts, with everybody hurling wine on each other until all are splashed from head to foot. There is an ocean of wet, pink shirts all around. At that point at twelve everybody comes back to town to celebrate trailed by bullfights in the town's bullring.Haro Wine Festival is a celebration in the town of Haro in the La Rioja locale of northern Spain. It is held each year in the late spring and includes wine drinking rivalries and challenges and a Batalla de Vino (Battle of Wine) where wines are poured at each other from cans and buckets.
The festival happens on June 29, the day of the benefactor holy person San Pedro. The day starts at 7:00 am, with a parade of individuals old and youthful, wearing white shirts and red scarves, all conveying containers, jugs, botas and different sorts of holders loaded with red wine.



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Haro wine celebration


Driven by the town's chairman, on horseback, the parade winds through the town to the Cliffs of Bilibio, where a mass is praised at the Hermitage of San Felices de Bilibio. After the mass a genuine free-for-all starts, with everybody hurling wine on each other until all are splashed from head to foot. There is an ocean of wet, pink shirts all around.
At that point at twelve everybody comes back to town to celebrate trailed by bullfights in the town's bullring.

harowine bull fight/wine festival/blog/travelloo
Haro wine celebration & bull fight