INTERNACIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL OF PYRENEES 2007

If you are thinking of taking part in a language course in Spain, we sincerely recommend you to come during the first week of August to Jaca!

From 30 July till 5 August the city of Jaca will receive a total of 1200 participants from 18 countries of the five continents. An internacional feeling will dominate again the old city center.

This year will celebrate the 44rd International Folk Music and Dance Festival of Pyrenees in Jaca during the first week of August. For the first time two new countries, Madagascar and Estland, will join this traditional folk festival.

In this edition importants changes will be introduced as for exemple the daily route of the music groups that will be done in the old city. The opening ceremony will be hold in the Festival Pavilion and some of the traditional activities, as the serie “Baila con Nosotros” (Dance with us) will take place in San Pedro square.

Other participant countries will be Antigua, Komis Republic, El Salvador, Italy, Germany, France, Filipinas, Chile, Canada, Bolivia, Argentina, Colombia, South Africa and Spain. The budget already approved by the council for this new edition will be 430.000 euros.

The origin of the Festival dates from 1963, year in which the first festival was held, and thereafter celebrated every two years alternating between Oloron (France) and Jaca. Held in the Spanish town on uneven years and in the French town on even years.

Further information you can find at: International Folk Festival Pyrenees