This year's Bloemencorso Zundert, or Zundert Flower Parade, which we previously wrote about here, featured 19 teams who designed floats inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. The famous Post-Impressionist painter was born in Zundert, The Netherlands, 162 years ago, well before the parade was first held. Traditionally, the parade is run entirely by volunteers, uses only dahlia flowers, and is the world's largest flower procession.
"In Zundert, in the South of the Netherlands, we are crazy about our flower parade," writes the event's website. "Our grannies and granddads started it in 1936 and we still can’t have enough of it. By the First Sunday of September the fever burns within us. Will the moving floats be finished in time? Are there enough dahlias? And who is going to win this time? Come to Zundert and share the experience!"
"In Zundert, in the South of the Netherlands, we are crazy about our flower parade"
Image credits: Erwin Martens
"Our grannies and granddads started it in 1936 and we still can’t have enough of it"
Image credits: Werner Pellis
This year's theme is Vincent Van Gogh
Image credits: Malou Evers
Every float is made of thousands of dahlia flowers
Image credits: Erwin Martens
"By the First Sunday of September the fever burns within us"
Image credits: Joyce van Belkom
"Will the moving floats be finished in time?"
Image credits: Werner Pellis
"Are there enough dahlias?"
Image credits: Bloemencorso Zundert
"And who is going to win this time?"
Image credits: Bloemencorso Zundert
Image credits: Malou Evers
Image credits: Werner Pellis
Image credits: Erwin Martens
Image credits: Bloemencorso Zundert
Image credits: Bloemencorso Zundert
Image credits: Joyce van Belkom