Frankenthal celebrates the start of spring with the Spring Market. For a whole week, the showmen invite you to the fairground: With rides and attractions for young and old, from bumper cars to ghost trains. A family day with special highlights and

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The Roosendaal Fair is a major folk festival in the Netherlands and, with around 250,000 visitors and approximately 100 attractions, ranks among the top five largest fairs in the country. It attracts visitors from across the region.

The fair stretches

The traditional folk festival in Brunsbütel will take place again this year in August in Koogstraße.

The official opening is on Friday at 17:00 with the marching band of the Marner Karnevals Gesellschaft (MKG).

The festival ends with a big fireworks

The Hochheim market is the event of the year and is known far beyond the city limits. It takes place on the first weekend after All Souls' Day and lasts five days. This special mixture of folk festival, fair and funfair is unique in Germany.

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In the southwest of England, in the tranquil village of Abottsham in the county of Devon, you will find The Big Sheep Farm & Theme Park. Run as a sheep farm for six generations, Rick Turner decided in 1988 to convert the former agricultural farm, Barton

The Gera Spring and Autumn Folk Festivals are the largest folk festivals in Eastern Thuringia. Around 30 showmen from all over Germany with their rides and attractions are on site and await you. Of course, there will also be a varied gastronomic supply.

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Plohn Amusement Park not only features East Germany’s wildest wooden roller coaster, “El Toro,” but also family-friendly coasters like “Plohseidon” and the wonderfully themed powered coaster “Miniwah & the Secret of Gold Creek City.” But that’s not

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