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[wendy]

Residents of a Dutch town use thousands of Dahlias to create floats for their Van Gogh-themed flower festival
hese are the incredible works of art created by residents in a Dutch village to celebrate their greatest painter on the first Sunday of September every year.

The floral masterpieces, draped in dahlias, are paraded around the streets of Zundert in the south of the Netherlands on giant floats up to twenty metres long and towering 10 metres high.

Legendary artist Vincent Van Gogh was born in the village in 1853 so he has often popped up as a theme in the Netherlands' oldest flower festival, dating back to 1936.

But this year, to commemorate the 125th anniversary of his death, the town decided to devote the whole parade to his artistic genius, with all 19 floats dedicated to him.

Attracting 50,000 people this year, it also celebrates the region’s proud reputation as a global supplier of dahlias, an area now covering 33 hectares (81 acres) of 600,000 dahlia bulbs in fifty different species.

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they are stunning...........................

[annie]

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