Those tourists giving preference to active leisure will not get bored during the festival as well. The guests of the festival will get a chance to enjoy watermelon rind riding, playing football with huge ripe watermelons instead of traditional balls as well as to take part in watermelon throwing competition. The choragi try hard to amuse the festival visitors inventing ever new entertainments and activities every year. Another engaging holiday takes place on the island of Rhodes at the last weekend of May. The holiday is the Medieval Rose Festival.
The festival has been established not long ago. It took place for the first time in 2006. The festival has soon become rather popular as among local residents so among foreign guests. Rose is a symbol of the island. By the end of May local parks are sinking in rose blossom of thousands of rose bushes. An established place for holding of the festival is a historic center of the island. The festival transfers its guests into an inimitable atmosphere of the Middle Ages.
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