8.8.13 Fiesta Buleria; Special Manzanilla Bottles; Harvest Festival

 The XLVI Fiesta de la Buleria is to take place in Jerez at the bullring on 7^th September. This is the 3^rd oldest Flamenco festival, a big tourist attraction, and counts on the support of the Junta and the Council. Tickets go on sale this week at 20 euros and can be purchased at the tourist office in the Plaza del Arenal. Many famous Flamenco stars from Jerez will take part, as well as a few from outside the area.

 A set of promotional bottles of Manzanilla has been organised by the cultural tourism organisation La Pandorga along with Sanlucar Council and Bodegas Baron. The idea is to promote the town as a summer resort linking posters from 1949, 1958 and 1959 with three specially produced bottles with the historic posters as labels. The set is named La Manzanilla, el Vino Ilustrado. The tourism councillor, Antonio Reyes said that Sanlucar is like a kind of natural theme park for Manzanilla and the local gastronomy.

 The 2013 Harvest Festival will have over 50 activities between the 10^th and 15^th of September. Junior grape treading and concerts are among the new activities which will take place in emblematic areas of the city. Naturally the bodegas will be protagonists, along with the Alcazar, the Alameda Vieja and the Cathedral, among others. There will be 6 exhibitions related to wine at the municipal library, the old fishmarket gallery, the Alcazar, Bodega la Reservada, Gonzalez Byass and the bodega San Gines at the Consejo. The idea of a junior treading of the grapes, the day after the senior treading, is to keep young people involved with the city traditions, so they can carry them forward. Prizes for the Short Story competition will be awarded at the Alcazar, and the programme for European Wine Tourism Day (7-10 Nov.)will be presented. The III Gastronomic Fair wll take place in the Alameda Vieja.