The Fürthermare adventure spa, which opened in October 2007, is located in Fürth, Bavaria, around eight kilometres northwest of Nuremberg. Covering around 4,000 square metres, it's all about "arriving, switching off and feeling good", as a wide variety

Rhenen, in the province of Utrecht, has been home to the Ouwehands Zoo since 1932. The park allocates its animals to areas on 22 hectares. While you can find mandrils and polar bears on one side, visitors are also shown giant Chinese pandas.

Gettorf is located halfway between Kiel and Eckernförde, less than 10 kilometres from the Baltic Sea beach. The Gettorf Zoo emerged from a private hobby in 1968. Through extensions, the small zoo in Schleswig-Holstein has grown to a total area of 4ha.

The Katharinenmarkt on the third weekend in September is considered a superlative folk festival in the region. It is based on over 400 years of tradition as a livestock and craft market. Over four days, the farmers' market, business and sales show,

Australia's second oldest zoo (after Melbourne Zoo) was opened in 1883 and has grown over time from about 6ha to 8ha. It can present more than 250 species to its visitors, most of which are indigenous. An expansion with exotic animals and birds is in

St John's Festival - the festival of joy

Once a year - usually on the first weekend in July - Eschwege is "in a state of emergency" at the St John's Festival. For five days, all life in the town is centred on this traditional festival, and the

The Rheinbach May Fair takes place on the Prümer Wall and in Pützstraße. There is fun for young and old throughout the fairground. Exhibitors with fairground rides, children's carousels and a variety of stalls with savoury and sweet treats present a

"From the coast to the Alps" was the title of the first area of the Odenwald model railway world, which opened in Fürth / Odenwald in 2009. One of Germany's largest miniature worlds is located on more than 2000sqm of exhibition space. With 16km of

Risoul Labellemontagne is located in the Hautes-Alpes department in the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and is one of the popular mountain destinations in the Southern Alps. Nestled in an impressive landscape of dense larch forests, sunny

In the French municipality of Lussault-sur-Loire in the canton of Amboise and about thirty minutes by car from the university city of Tours, you will find the Grand Aquarium de Touraine, which opened in 1994 under the name Aquarium du Val de Loire and