The Butzbach Faselmarkt is one of the oldest and most important folk festivals in Upper Hesse and looks back on over 500 years of history. Originally created purely as a cattle market where breeding animals – known as ‘Faselvieh’ in the Hessian

Kläschen - that means a state of emergency in Lemgo! There are always big celebrations around St Nicholas' Day. From Thursday to Sunday when the shops are open, fairground rides and many stalls in the town centre and on the Kastanienwall provide an

The Foire aux Manèges de Printemps in Arras is an integral part of the northern French festival calendar and transforms the historic city in the Pas-de-Calais department into a vibrant centre of entertainment culture every spring. The festival takes

In Mautern, Austria, in beautiful Styria, in the Liesing Valley, not far from Leoben, Graz and Liezen, lies the "Wild Mountain Mautern". More than 300 alpine animals such as wolves, bears, owls, donkeys and ibexes as well as many other animal

The Santa Pauli Christmas Market in Hamburg is Germany's only erotic Christmas market and represents a deliberate break with traditional, contemplative Christmas markets. It takes place annually on Spielbudenplatz in the heart of the famous red-light

After Croatia's first theme park opened in July 2017, six years later it was time to build a water park less than 2 kilometres from the Adriatic coast right next to Dalmaland. On the route between Zadar (around 30 kilometres to the north) and Split

Ústí nad Labem is located 70 kilometres south of Dresden and 90 kilometres north of Prague. In 1908, a merchant founded the present-day Ústí nad Labem Zoo here, originally as a bird park. Over the years, the original 6 hectares that the bird park had

In Bürstadt in southern Hesse, around 10 km south-west of Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate and around 20 km south of Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg, you will find the Dschungelcamp indoor playground. Open all year round (closed on Mondays), the indoor

In the largest shopping centre in the US state of Illinois, the Woodfield Mall, in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg on Interstate 290, you will find the Peppa Pig World of Play - Indoor Play Centre, which will open in February 2021. Here, the little ones

When the scent of roasted almonds and hot mulled wine wafts through the alleys of the historic old town, a very special time begins in Leer. Thanks to its unique backdrop, the Christmas market in the East Frisian ‘Ledastadt’ is one of the most