Worlds Largest Sand Sculpture Event, FIESA 2006, open it’s doors to public this saturday in Algarve, with this years theme Mythologies. The 4th International Sand Sculptures Festival (FIESA 2006) will start up from Saturday, May 20, at 18:00h, exhibiting thirty five thousand tons of sand, sculpted in scenes and symbols of the universal mythology.
The festival locates in Pear, in Algarve, and it exhibits an integrated group of sculptures in sand of great dimensions, in an area about 15.000 m2.

The city of sand began to be built in the beginning of April, for a group of thirty three sculptors of several nationalities, interpreted the sand, mythologies of Greek-Roman, Nordic, Celtic, Egyptian and Indian, between other histories and symbolic illustrations of the imaginary.

The most known myths and Greek gods are represented in sand, as well as symbolic episodes of the Old and New Will. Another area is dedicated to the Celtic and Nordic mythology, being followed myths Assyrian, Egyptian, of India and of Africa. There is also have room in this exhibition scenes of the Aztec mythology and, the great myth of the future, the extra-terrestrial beings.

FIESA, organized by Prosandart, it is the only festival of its kind in the Iberian Peninsula and, for the amount of sand used, it is the largest exhibition of sand sculptures, on all over the world. In their three previous editions the festival was visited for about 250 thousand people.

In the festival, there is also a place for sand sculpture activities for public, where the children and the adults can show their creative capacity and to learn the basics technichs of this way of artistic expression.

FIESA can be visited everyday, between ten in the morning and the midnight. During the day the sculptures can be admired with all their detail and the night brings other atmosphere to the park of sculptures, FIESA in the night, illuminated by color lights, and special effects.

The opening the representatives' of the main algarvian institutions presence is waited, it will be celebrated with a dance and circus arts. Other activities, concerts, dances performances, will elapse until September.

source: região sul