The Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut, is one of the most famous marine aquariums in the United States and offers visitors a fascinating mix of animal encounters, education and conservation. It opened in 1973 and is now home to over 10,000 animals,

Just 30 kilometres as the crow flies from the Gulf of Riga lies the town of Sigulda on the eastern bank of the River Gauja. Around 53 kilometres north-east of Latvia's capital Riga, just along the A2 motorway, you reach a region that is often referred to

With over 100,000 visitors, the Schätzele market is the largest folk festival in the region and one of the most important in South Baden. The town of Tengen has been celebrating the market on the last weekend in October for over 725 years.

The Schätzele

In the Hungarian municipality of Szilvásvárad in northern Hungary, about 23 km north of Eger and about 6 km northeast of the county seat of Bélapátfalva, you will find Hungary's first monorail alpine coaster, the X-TRÉM BOB Szilvásvárad, which

In 1956, the Opel Zoo in Kronberg im Taunus (Rhine-Main area) was founded by Georg von Opel as a research enclosure. The park is home to well over 200 animal species. The park is particularly proud of its keeping of the Mesopotamian fallow deer, its 2

Since the relocation of the spring market from the Festwiese to Nienburg city centre in 2007, this decision can be seen as a small ‘success story’. This year, the spring market can finally take place again. After a forced break due to the coronavirus

In the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Arnsberg-Hüsten in the Hochsauerland district, the Hüstner Kirmes takes place every year on the weekend around the 2nd Sunday in September on the Riggenweide. Around 300,000 visitors flock to the streets and

Once you start enjoying the first warm rays of sunshine in Pforzheim, it usually doesn’t take long before the Brötzinger Spring Festival transforms the Weststadt into a colourful party district. The event is essentially a real institution in

Herne is not just Crange, in March the City Kirmes takes place in the city centre. Here, too, lots of showmen come together to make it a great little event.

Travel information:

By public transport:

- by underground - stop Herne Mitte or Herne

In the middle of the Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve, only about 20 km from Vienna, there is a small mountain where you can ride a mountain coaster since 2006. Over 100 metres in altitude are conquered on a track of over 850 metres with many fast-paced