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The hugely popular wine festival at Limassol, Cyprus, is returning for another year.
Visitors, locals as well as tourists, will converge at the town's botanical gardens when the festival commences on August 28th. It runs for two weeks.
The major vineyards of the island host free or very reasonably priced tastings of the local Muscats and Retsinas, along with the dark and heavy Cypriot dessert wine Commanderia. Buffets of local food - fresh fruit, Halloumi and the classic smoked pork Lountza, for example - also prove very popular with visitors.
Inaugurated in the year after the island gained independence in 1960 with the purpose of promoting local wine and culture, the festival has grown into a massive event: 100,000 visitors are expected to come this year.
Those looking for respite from the wine tasting will find plenty to do in the palm tree-studded gardens themselves, which contain a wide variety of local flora and fauna, as well as Cyprus's only zoo.
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