On April 25, “Daffodil Day” will take place in Babócsa (southern Hungary) to celebrate the blooming of Europe’s largest contiguous daffodil field.
The organizer, the Babócsa Association, announced on its Facebook page that visitors to this unique spectacle are expected for the 28th time at the municipality’s Basa Garden, not far from the Hungarian-Croatian border.
Turkish fountain in Babócsa. Photo: Zerind/Wikimedia Commons
The program for the one-day festival, which regularly attracts numerous visitors, includes a “border fortress fair,” a crafts market, a cooking competition featuring cabbage dishes, folk dances, a children’s theater performance, a playhouse, archery, and several concerts.
According to the municipality’s website, the venue, the Basa Garden, got its name because according to tradition, the local pasha planted the thirteen-hectare site with daffodils during the Turkish occupation to delight his harem ladies.
Since then, countless star daffodils have bloomed there every spring for centuries, covering the field on the outskirts of the municipality for a few days and enveloping it in a cloud of fragrance; this field has been placed under nature conservation by the administration of the Danube-Drava National Park.
Via MTI; Featured image: Zerind/Wikimedia Commons
