Floriade 2001

Floriade 2001

Floriade is a flower and entertainment festival held annually in Canberra's Commonwealth Park featuring extensive displays of flowering bulbs with integrated sculptures and other artistic features. The festival attracts tourists from around Australia and overseas in spring from mid September to mid October each year, and is considered the most important regular event for tourism in the Australian Capital Territory. A festival or fest is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community. ... Annual, from the Latin annuum, or year means pertaining to a year or happening every year. ... Canberra is the capital of the Commonwealth of Australia and, with a population of just over 320,000, its largest inland city. ... Commonwealth Park Stage 88 Commonwealth Park is in Canberra, Australia, on the north side of Lake Burley Griffin. ... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Spring, 1573. ... Motto: Pro Rege, Lege et Grege (For the Queen, the Law and the People) Nickname: (none) Other Australian states and territories Capital Canberra Government Administrator Chief Minister Const. ...

Floriade started in 1988 as a one off celebration of Canberra's 75th birthday and bicentenary. Due to the success and popularity of the event, it has run every year since then with each year having a new theme and is currently the largest flower festival in the Southern hemisphere with over 300,000 visitors. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Southern Hemisphere is the half of a planets surface (or celestial sphere) that is south of the equator (the word hemisphere literally means half ball). On Earth it contains four continents (part of Africa, Australia, most of South America, and Antarctica) and four oceans (South Atlantic, Indian, Pacific...

Floriade themes

• 1995 Carnival of Cultures
• The Century in Bloom
• 1997 Colour by Day - and Night
• 1998 Gardens and Gourmets
• 1999 Magic of the Gardens
• 2000 Games in the Garden
• 2001 Centenary of Federation
• 2002 Poetry in Flowers
• 2003 Heavens in Bloom
• 2004 The Wonder of Water
• 2005 Rock 'n' Roll in Bloom

See also

• Floriade in The Netherlands
• Keukenhof annual flower festival in The Netherlands

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External links

• Official Floriade page