The Salzburg Christmas Market, as it is known throughout the world today, has been around since 1974. Every year, the market opens with a festive ceremony on the Thursday before the first Sunday in Advent and closes its doors again on January 1. From

When the ‘Berg’ calls in Westmalle, everyone in the village knows: it’s time for the Bergkermis again. Forget anonymous mega-parks or cookie-cutter, over-styled funfairs – this is all about pure, unadulterated Flemish joie de vivre, right on your

In the Rhineland-Palatinate Rhine-Lahn district, in the municipality of Loreley, or rather in Bornich, you will find the Loreley Bob summer toboggan run, which is part of the Wiegand adventure mountains. In addition to the 1100 metre long Loreley Bob,

The Spring Festival is probably the WFV's oldest and most important event. It was handed over to the newly founded WFV at the beginning of the 1980s by the town of Wasserburg under the then mayor Dr Geiger in order to provide it with an economic basis so

In Anif, just a handful of kilometres south of Salzburg, lies Salzburg Zoo. Opened in 1961 as the "Alpenzoo Hellabrunn", it has also been called the zoo or Zoo Hellabrunn over the years. The zoo itself is home to animals of around 150 species, divided

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Every year, three weeks before Easter, the Eisenach Summer Win® brings a centuries-old custom to life. Winter, the force that brings death, is driven away and the life-giving summer is summoned. The parade has been the highlight of the spring festival

Twice a year, the large folk festival takes place on the Square of Friendship between Peoples.

Travel information:

By car - Platz der Völkerfreundschaft - parking directly at the festival site, day ticket 2.00 euros.

By public transport - tram lines 4, 5

The Klötzer Martinimarkt can be traced back to St Martin's Day. On this day, all the farmers' harvest work was completed and the financial year ended, so to speak. Maidservants and farmhands changed employers at the St Martin's market. People traded at

The Easter market has its origins in the Napoleonic era, when Mutterstadt was the cantonal capital, and today takes place as an amusement market from Easter Saturday to the Tuesday after Easter on the Messplatz.

(Source: City of Mutterstadt)

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