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    Watermelon Festival 2009 in Aldaya

     

    Aldaya is a small town near to Valencia in Spain. Last 30 july celebrated the traditional Watermelon Festival with nerly 300 watermelon. The watermelon festival it is a tradition from Valencia people where all the childrens grab watermelon with many differents pictures. Aldaya has recuperated this tradition from 30 years ago and now it is a very popular festival . Nearly 700 people were involve in this festival at 21.30 pm . During one hour , the people  saw many differents watermelons wiht a differents sizes and drawings as duck, star, moon, gardens or popular cartoons as winie the pooh,Mickey Mouse  or Burt simpson. This year it is increasing the watermelons whiches are involve in a competition of three categories : traditional watermelon, innovation watermelon and children watermelon.  Mario won the innovation watermelon wiht a excelent duck with many drawings as wings . Maria and Andrea won the traditional watermelon which one of them was the winie the pooh drawing and German and Lidia won children watermelon. Apart of this award, we saw many creatives watermelon as worms , garden or  even stars and  moon as reference international Astronomy Year 2009.Too, Barbie was in a watermelon and clowns, witches and differents drawings. Aldaya celebrated each year this traditional watermelon festival  and the people just walking around the city centre and sang the songs of watermelon festival.

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