The annual Orlando Citrus Parade is a parade that celebrates the Holidays and 2 annual college football sport events. The Champs Sports Bowl and Capital One Bowl.

The Orlando Citrus Parade was also known as the Super Holiday Parade and started around 1980. This event is planned and produce by the Florida Citrus Sports committee.

The Parade is broadcast nationwide to over 100 TV stations and is watched by as much as 60 million people, while the City of Orlando, receives over 80,000 visitors for the parade.

The parade consist of High School and College marching bands, along with Theme Park Characters from Disney, Universal Studios and Sea World. The main feature is the Citrus Theme Floats. Similar to the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena California, the only difference is, that instead of petals, these floats are decorated with oranges, grapefruits and tangerines.

The citrus floats are prepared and filled by volunteers that gives their time during the week after Christmas Day and New Year's Eve (Most likely, between December 26th and the 29th.

Then, on December 30th of every year (Some years, the parade may be on the 29th or the 31st), the streets of Downtown Orlando are packed with visitors from other places that comes to see their high school marching band and the marching bands for the 2 universities that will have the match up at the Capital One Bowl every year.

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EXTERNAL LINKS

Florida Citrus Sports Official Web Site

Citrus Parade in Orlando