Bloemencorso

The Bloemencorso, a Dutch word that means flower parade, is held in many towns of the Netherlands and Belgium. In a parade of this kind, the floats, cars and in some cases, boats, are magnificently decorated or covered in flowers. Each parade has its own character, charm and theme.

Zundert holds the largest flower parade in the world. The parade takes place on the first Sunday of September. The floats are large artworks made of steel wire, cardboard, papier mâché and flowers. In the Bloemencorso Zundert, only dahlias are used to decorate objects, and it takes thousands of them just to cover one float.

The huge floats are made by twenty different hamlets and each of them consists of hundreds of builders, who are all equally crazy about the Bloemencorso. The older members of the hamlet are often responsible for planting and growing dahlias, while the younger ones build the float in large temporary tents that are built exclusively for the event.