{"id":119672,"date":"2023-06-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=119672"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:44:53","slug":"saaremaa-peony-festival-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/saaremaa-peony-festival-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Saaremaa Peony Festival underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Saaremaa Peony Festival has opened in the village of P\u00e4rni approximately 5 kilometres north of the island\u2019s capital of Kuressaare. Between now and the end of the Festival on July 2, visitors will be able to explore more than 4 hectares of blooming peonies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Friday, June 9, saw the opening of the annual Saaremaa Peony Festival in the village of P\u00e4rni north of Kuressaare. The length of the festival until July 9, makes it possible to follow from the first early peonies blooming to the late varieties final flowers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">A number of marked walks have been made around the 4-hectare festival site. Providing visitors with many spectacular views and photo opportunities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">As a general rule, the festival organisers say that the best time to visit the festival is between June 15 and 30 as early, middle and late blooming varieties can all be on display.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The event is not just unique in Estonia, but Europe as well, with the nearest comparable festival taking place in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Saaremaa Peony Festival will be open from 10 am -5 pm Wednesday to Friday and 10 am \u2013 3 pm on Saturdays and Sundays, until the end of the festival on July 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Tickets for the festival, as well as more in-depth information, can be found on the official website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saaremaapuukool.ee\/pojengifestivali-pilet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Saaremaa Peony Festival has opened in the village of P\u00e4rni approximately 5 kilometres north of the island\u2019s capital &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":119680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[18571,13217,13583,14404,15265,18568,18569,18570],"class_list":["post-119672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-flower","tag-kuressaare-2","tag-saaremaa-2","tag-festival","tag-peony","tag-saaremaa-peony-festival","tag-parni","tag-walk"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119679,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119672\/revisions\/119679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}