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I Lusitano Horse Festival from Aguas de Lindóia, Brazil
The importance from the most prestigious Portuguese horse breed, the Lusitano horse, in Brazil is long known and internationally recognized. Now the Brazilian Association of Lusitano Horse breeders (ABPSL) has chosen the city of Águas de Lindóia, in the Brazilian São Paulo state, to organize the I Lusitano Horse Festival from Aguas de Lindóia. This Lusitano Festival will occur between the 4th and 7th of September. This equestrian event will be organized in a similar format from the Lusitano horse fair organized every year in Golegã, Portugal.
The Lusitano horse fair organized in Golegã started in 1571 and is known as Golegã Fair or National Horse Fair. It has been the most important fair for the Lusitano horse having every year thousands of visitants from Portugal and abroad. This Brazilian Lusitano fair is inspired in the Golegã fair and intends to provide an excellent opportunity to appreciate the Lusitano horse breed.
The I Lusitano Horse Festival from Aguas de Lindóia will be held in the square of the Adhemar de Barros in the centre of Aguas de Lindóia town.There are more than 300 Lusitano breeders registered in the Brazilian Lusitano horse association and for them it will a chance to use this Festival to show their horses and to see the horses from the other breeders. There will be several shows and competitions with Lusitano horses. This fair will be also an opportunity to make the Águas de Lindóia town in Brazil and the Golegã town in Portugal as “sister” towns. On the 7th of September, the day when the Brazil independence is celebrated, the mayors from both towns will inaugurate a monument to mark the establishment of the “sister” towns.
Tags: Equitation, Horses
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