The 137th conventional “battle of the flowers” befell in Good on Saturday (February 19), because the southern French metropolis’s carnival continued for the second week.
Performers atop animal-themed floats ridden with flowers waved bouquets on the crowd and threw flowers on the viewers, as musicians and dancers flanked them.
Round 3,000 flowers adorned every of the 16 floats in a celebration of the Good area’s horticultural trade.
Till a sequence of well being restrictions have been lifted on February 2, the variety of attendees had been restricted to five,000 seated folks however organisers now anticipate to welcome an extra 7,000 standing spectators.
Yearly, the carnival attracts greater than 200,000 spectators with its parade and annual “battle of the flowers”. The occasion has been a fixture of town on the French Riviera for nearly 150 years.
(Reuters)