The Dahlia Festival is not only flowers – but decorated floats in annual parades called Corso. In fact we saw more than 20 of them in this little town. They were really well made down to the finest detail. The people here start in April with ideas and sketches, then they make the figures and paint them. When the Dahlia season arrives in September, the floats are decorated with flowers the same colours as they were painted in.

I’ll post a couple of the floats, and also a video I made on one of the most impressive ones. You will see that the actors take their work seriously!

First there was a children’s parade, where the floats were drawn by children as well.

Then came the bigger floats made with impressive reality look.

And of course they also were more and more architecturally impressive.

Anubis was one of my favourites.

And finally, the great lion – well, they couldn’t have made it more fascinating than this!

I hope you enjoyed the show!