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Vivianne van de Cauter, Miss Europe 1975, parades on top of a float of the Puigcerdà Lake Festival accompanied by young people from Cerda.

Date
1975
Archive
County Archive of Cerdanya
Document type
Imatge fixa
Reference code
CAT-ACCE-254-17
Link to the online document
Description

The festa de l’Estany is a festival born at the end of the 19th century and which has gradually adapted to the times. In the 60s and 70s, and as part of Puigcerdà’s tourism promotion, beauty contests were organized which were always won by foreign holidaymakers. In this case, Miss Europe was invited and she was taken for a ride on a float from the Estany festival as a trophy. This photograph shows how the mentality about women and their bodies has changed.