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Zahle Wine Festival in Zahle
Zahle's Festival of the Vine runs each September as a multi-week celebration of the city's wine culture, combining concerts, plays, poetry readings, and art exhibitions across the self-styled City of Wine and Poetry. Local wineries open cellars for tastings while Bardouni River gorge restaurants extend seasonal wine-paired menus during the festival period.
Zahle's most important annual cultural event, generally known as the Festival of the Vine, has traditionally run each September as a multi-week celebration spread across the city rather than a single concentrated event, reflecting Zahle's deep identification with its vineyards, its wine production, and its self-image as the City of Wine and Poetry.