Every year the Garden Festival was one of the most anticipated and significant events of the Rundāle Palace Museum, taking place during the most beautiful time of the summer – the full bloom of roses. There will be no Garden Festival this year, however on 17th July, while its roses are still in beautiful bloom, the French Garden of the palace will host a Summer Fair with more than 80 traders.
At the Summer Fair organized by the Rundāle Palace Museum on 17th July from 10:00 to 17:00 it will be possible meet traders from various Latvian cities offering a wide range of plants, garden products, handicrafts and home-made products.
Stalls will now be located along the edge of the canal, like in this year’s spring plant market, so that visitors to the French Garden can freely view the entire garden area and easily walk through each market area. Visitors will be invited to taste and purchase high-quality local delicacies – bread, cheese, meat products, confectionery, various drinks and ice cream. Seedlings of roses, decorative shrubs and perennial flowers will be on sale, as well as a wide range of produce made by craftsmen and artists in Latvia – jewellery, clothing, cosmetics, gifts, souvenirs and goods for children.
In this lively atmosphere, everyone will have the opportunity to not only walk along the paths and labyrinths of the French Garden but also to appreciate the novelty – a labyrinth created in the spring of 2020 in the flower meadow near Rundāle Palace by the east side canal outside of the French Garden territory.
On this day, of course, not only visitors to the Summer Fair will be welcome but everyone wishing to experience the palace garden in a lively summer atmosphere.