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Harvest Festival
Harvest Festival
The word harvest comes from the Latin vindemia, which means
collecting, the grape harvest and time when such activity takes
place, as a second meaning.
In 1913, for the first time Mendoza held a popular party, while
the Second National Congress of Industry and Commerce was taking
place. It was called the Harvest Festival, but had no continuity
until April 1936. In that year, the ritual was resumed and has
continued until today. It is one of the perfect excuses to visit the
province in March each year.
The act of the Festival of the Harvest, which eventually adopted the
word National since Mendoza produces more than 75% of the Argentine
wines, takes place at the Greek theatre Frank Romero Day, in the
west of the General San Martin Park, a few kilometres away from the
provincial capital.
The show of music and dance brings together approximately 40,000
people each year. Mendocinos and tourists mingle to witness a
celebration that is already a registered trademark of Mendoza.
The Origins of the Festival
The Fiesta de la Vendimia is perhaps the first link that
weaves the wine and the tourism. It was born great, but continued to
grow until it reached the present dimensions.
The Harvest is the image of the essence of the Mendocinean work and
has been receiving over the time the feelings of the men for their
land and the emotion of receiving its fruits. It is the symbol of the
farmers work, who receive their prize in fruit for their efforts,
which will have new life in the body and the spirit of the good wine.
In 1913, a first attempt to make a harvest festival was drawn on
April 11, when a congress of the industry and commerce carried out
ended with the harvest parade of floats and allegorical chariots. An
especially vines decorated train, was the bearer of 800 guests who
toured areas of vineyards and wineries.
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