
DOŽINKY, KAPTOL, JULY 2017.
Harvest Festival or Dožínky is the oldest, largest and most attended event of the Czech minority in Croatia, whose tradition is still maintained since 1925. year when they held the first harvest celebrations in Daruvar.
Due to the large number of participants and guests, and a large and long-term organization, held every other year in the second county. Host harvest celebrations 2010th The city was Daruvar. Dožinky manifestation is held in the second half of July, lasts two days and brings together more than 1000 participants, all 28 members of Czech Beseda in Croatia and their guests from the Czech and Croatian companies. The event, organized a series of events, exhibitions and a rich folklore program.
Harvest Festival as an event that is except for the symbolic presentation of successful harvesting displays and all that the Czech minority in Croatia has made in the cultural, educational and social life. The biggest attraction of harvest celebrations, harvest the parade with more than a thousand participants, dozens of themed floats adorned with grain, which shows all the harvest work, from planting to obtain bread, but many minority groups in traditional costumes. The central square during Dožinky maintained and old Czech fair which aims to show the forgotten crafts, rich gastronomic, ethnographic and cultural richness of the Czechs in Croatia.
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