The story
Tulip Symphony Pitesti in Pitesti
Tulip Symphony, known in Romanian as Simfonia Lalelelor, is a spring flower festival and fair held in Pitesti since 1978, built on the city's reputation as a tulip-growing area after thousands of bulbs were planted there in the early 1970s, pairing blooms with folk music and art.
Pitesti's identity as a tulip city did not emerge organically; it traces to a specific decision in 1972 and 1973 to plant roughly 3,000 tulip bulbs, brought in from Arad and Oradea, in the city's central area alongside other flowers.