The Jerte Valley, in Extremadura, one of Spain's most famous valleys. It celebrates the flowering of the cherry trees every year, with two different events of colour. First, it only happens for a couple of weeks a year, usually at the end of March and beginning of April, when the cherry trees blossom and coat the valley in white, depending on weather conditions. The second is in June and July, when the landscape changes its colour to an intense red, as the cherries ripen. A natural spectacle that, in addition to being a visual delight, is also a treat for the senses of smell and taste.
The flowering of the valley's nearly two million cherry trees lasts around two weeks. At the beginning of summer, the flowers give way to delicious cherries, and the valley is blanketed in red. In all the little towns of this zone, the inhabitants offer typical products and food to be tasted by everyone. This land provides delicious jams, wines, and liqueurs, and typical dishes such as trout in Jerte style. Exhibitions, mediaeval markets, open-air celebrations, routes or tasting sessions, among other activities, take place in the towns in the valley: Valdestillas, Tornavacas, Rebollar, Piornal, Navaconcejo, Jerte, El Torno, Casas del Castañar, Cabrero, Cabezuela del Valle and Barrado, all of them in the province of Cáceres. Around 200 different varieties of cherry in the valley. Nature is wise, and there’s a reason why people have practised this cherry industry on the banks of the Jerte since at least 1352.
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Valle del Jerte, Cáceres. Photo credit: Mariasinmaas
Source — Spainis Culture | Guiarepsol
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI am coming from Marvao in Spain, would I be able to see Cherry blossom in early april 2017 at Trujilo instead of Jerte Valley as it is nearer for us? We are heading south of Spain after that.
Thank you!
Shum from Singapore