 Castroville Artichoke Festival

Castroville Artichoke Festival is a food festival held annually in Castroville, a town in Monterey County of the U.S. State of California.The city, which calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World", began promoting the artichoke with a festival in 1959, and the festival has grown so large that it has been moved out of the town, into a nearby convention center.