»Cherries in the neighbour’s garden…« sang years ago Peter Alexander and had cherries not really in his mind. The well known text of this song is however this time connected with the Slovenian municipality Goriška Brda in the real meaning of the word, since the neighbouring country can offer sweet and red cherries already from the end of May onwards and year after year properly celebrates their »harvest«. Already in the times of the Monarchy mostly women traditionally brought the first cherries in spring time from Goriška Brda to Klagenfurt and Vienna. The municipality Brda and the AACC ( Alps-Adriatic Centre ) organized in the last years together with the towns Kagenfurt and Villach the festival of cherries with wine, musical programme … and in this way successfully revived the past tradition.
On 1st and 2nd of June next year we will celebrate with the town Graz, announced today during his today’s visit of collegue Mag. Siegfried Nagl the Mayor Franc Mužič. In his luggage he had a lot of delicacies to taste. Beside the cooperation at the festival of cherries the discussion was also about the meaning of Slovenian independance 25 years ago and about the fact, how the cooperation afterwards positively grew up and intensified. The Mayor Nagl stressed: »It is a pleasure to me, that we will be together at the festival, we will also invite our village of cherries Hittendorf. On the other side I came to the conclusion, that today cooperation sholud be strengthened even more than ever before and that is necessary to look for places for resting. Your municipality is one of such places.« The Slovenian Mayor was only able to confirm these words and to add: »We are located in a beautiful landscape with marvelous views towards the Alps and the sea, beside the cherrues we also have excellent wines. I cordially invite you and all your citizens«.
Image credits: Foto Fischer, Graz
