The Goychay Pomegranate Festival ( az, Göyçay nar festivalı) is an annual cultural festival that is held in Goychay,

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

. The festival features Azerbaijani fruit-cuisine mainly the

pomegranate The pomegranate (''Punica granatum'') is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between tall. The pomegranate was originally described throughout the Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean re ...

s from Goychay. At the festival, a cultural parade is held with dances and music. In 2020, the Goychay Pomegranate Festival was inscribed in the

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The festival features a fair and an exhibition that displays different local varieties of pomegranates as well as various pomegranate products produced by local enterprises. During the festival, music and dance performances are presented each year. The festival also includes athletic performances and various craftsmen, potters, millers, blacksmiths, artists, performances of folklore groups and paintings.

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File:Granatäpfel.JPG, Pomegranate File:Azerbaijan-Pomegranate Festival (e-citizen).jpg,

Goychay (city) Goychay ( az, Göyçay, russian: Геокчай) is a city, municipality and the capital of the Goychay District of Azerbaijan. The municipality includes the city of Goychay and the nearby village of Qızılqaya. As of December 2016 the urban ...

, 2011 year. One of the prepared stands at the Pomegranate Festival. File:Azerbaijan-Pomegranate Festival, making lavash bread (e-citizen).jpg,

, 2011 year. Women in national costumes are making

lavash Lavash ( hy, լավաշ) is a thin flatbread usually leavened, traditionally baked in a tandoor (''tonir'') or on a ''sajj'', and common to the cuisines of South Caucasus, Western Asia, and the areas surrounding the Caspian Sea. Lavash is on ...

. File:Azerbaijan-Pomegranate Festival acrobat's performance (e-citizen).jpg,

, 2011 year. Acrobat's performance at the Pomegranate Festival.

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