Harvest Festival

As part of the National Harvest Festival, every year many events, festivals and celebrations are held to honor the land of good wine. Among them, […]

The growth of the wine industry caused many effects in the province, becoming a reason of various art forms, giving rise to one of the most representative whose aim is to highlight the work of the winegrower, the popular work of transforming grapes into wine. A festival that has established itself in the country and the world.

When the harvest finished, it was customary for workers to celebrate the final of the work playing the guitar, singing and dancing, and later choose a girl crowned with clusters of grapes. In 1913, for the first time the celebration became popular and was celebrated outside the scope of the rows. Over the years the festival grew in form and content, and today is a celebration with its own spirit.

It is an artistic-religious act. Liturgical in its form and religious in its essence, is a thanksgiving to God for the fruits received, do it for farmers who knows the suffering life in the groove, extolling his prayer for good harvest in the image of the Virgin of Carrodilla.

The idea of these celebrations is the recapitulation of Mendoza past for which staging is performed, in which allusive and representative carriages of the wealth of each department, communities and gaucho federations, made a tour through the main streets of downtown of Mendoza to commemorate the wine and its full context.

It is the culmination of the festivities with a theatrical light and sound show, held at the Frank Romero Day Greek Theater, during which, through a series of artistic frames following a script that changes every year and envolve hundreds of dancers and actors on a stage above a significant size scenary, Mendoza’s life, rural and urban is depicted.