The love of folk festivals in Lower Bavaria is unbroken - as evidenced by the many festivals that take place throughout the state between April and October. As the third weekend in October approaches, the series of folk festivals in Bavaria comes to a

The traditional Easter fair in Beuel takes place in the area north and south of the Kennedy Bridge with fairground rides and food stalls. For more than 40 years, showmen have been bringing their stalls and carousels to the banks of the Rhine in Beuel

The Heerhugowaard Fair is a popular regional festival in the province of North Holland, which transforms the town centre into a colourful fairground every year. The fair is centred right in the heart of the town on the central Stadsplein, located

In the centre of the square city of Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg, in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region, you will find Luisenpark, which is the largest park in the city and is divided into two parts. The attractive park grounds, consisting of more

In the Swiss canton of Vaud, or rather in Servion, around 4 km from Oron-la-Ville and around 13 kilometres north-east of Lausanne, you will find the Tropiquarium de Servion, which has been open since 1979. Covering an area of around two hectares, the

In Klingenthal in the south-east of the Vogtland district in Saxony, you will find the Mühlleithen summer toboggan run, built in 1993. The 800-metre-long track leads through a chicane and eleven curves with a maximum gradient of ten percent. You can

The Blijdorp Zoo is officially called the Royal Rotterdam Zoo and was opened in 1857, making it one of the oldest zoos in the Netherlands. Situated in the centre of Rotterdam, it borders on a festival site and is divided by a railway line into an eastern

It opened in 1969 under the name “Løveparken” (meaning “Lion Park”), with lions as its only animals. To this day, it remains the only zoo in Denmark that is home to gorillas. Over the years, the zoo’s total area has grown to 120 hectares,

The big spring fair takes place directly on the banks of the Rhine at the Tonhalle. If the attractions at the fair are not enough for you, you can finish off with a short detour to the "longest bar in the world" in the old town next door.

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The Bietigheim Horse Market is a nationally renowned folk festival in Bietigheim-Bissingen, which takes place at the Bietigheim railway viaduct and attracts several hundred thousand visitors every year. Despite this large number of visitors, the festival