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Tomorrow, Thursday the 22nd of March the “Semana de Francia” 4-day celebration will begin in Casa de Campo, with one of the first events being the “Claude Terrail Polo Tournament” to take place on the Casa de Campo polo fields from 4pm.
UPDATE: The first game of the “Claude Terrail Polo Tournament” will be played TODAY (Friday March 23rd) at 4pm, this game was scheduled to take place yesterday (Thursday) – but was postponed due to rain.
The final is still scheduled to go ahead on Saturday at 5pm as planned!
The Claude Terrail Polo Tournament
Where: The Casa de Campo polo fields
When: Polo games will be played on:•
Thursday March the 22nd at 4pmFriday March 23rd at 4pm• Saturday March the 24th at 5pm
Prize-giving ceremony and cocktail party: Saturday March the 24th, 5pm
This prize-giving ceremony and cocktail will also include the prize-giving for the “Copa Foro Empresarial Franco-Dominicano” golf tournament also being played on Saturday on the Teeth of the Dog golf course.Click here for the full schedule of “Semana de Francia” events!
The tournament which will be played between the Casa de Campo polo team and the guest polo team from the “Domaine du Barbossi” (vineyard and estate similar to Casa de Campo) in France is being played in honor of the late Claude Terrail, who is not only an iconic figure in gastronomic French history, but was also a huge fan of Casa de Campo as well as playing polo in Casa de Campo.
Claude Terrail first started visiting Casa de Campo in the early 1980’s (the above photo was taken in 1983), which is about the time when Casa de Campo was first opened to the public as a vacation destination (previously it had only been used as a private vacation spot for executives of Gulf and Western). And so being amongst the first visitors to Casa de Campo, his name is well remembered amongst the many Casa de Campo villa owners, who have had homes in the Casa de Campo resort for more than 20 years.
When he wasn’t playing polo in Casa de Campo, Claude Terrail was the owner of the famous restaurant “La Tour D’Argent” in Paris from 1947 until his death in 2006, a restaurant which according to the restaurant’s own website was founded in 1952 by King Henry IV of France. The restaurant’s speciality dish (for which it is most famous) is the pressed duck (Canard à la presse) and diners who order the duck are also served with a postcard with the bird’s serial number – now well over 1 million.
Source: wikipedia.org
About “Le Domaine de Barbossi”
The Barbossi Estate is an exceptional 1,300 hectare property; a vineyard and farm estate which produces some of the world’s best wines as well as olive oil and honey. The grape varieties grown at the “Domaine de Barbossi” are traditional: Cinsault, Grenache, Syrah and Carignan.
Find out more here: www.ddeb.fr
The “Semana de Francia”: 22nd – 25th of March
The “Semana de Francia”, 4 day event will incorporate a multitude of business, technological, cultural and gastronomic activities all over Casa de Campo with the exceptional spot of Altos de Chavón transformed into a typical “village Francaise”, with gastronomic, artistic and technological fair open every day from 10am – 10pm animated with street performers and a lively program of musical and theatrical events!
Click here to find out more and for a full schedule of events and activities!