At the largest folk festival in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel, you will experience a varied family programme for young and old, peppered with stars and starlets as well as sporting competitions. Of course, the dragon boat and duck races are also a

The beginnings of the fair up to the present day

The beginnings of the St Michael's Fair date back to the Middle Ages. In 1428, the market day was first explicitly mentioned by name as "frigge Kermesse to sente Michels misse". This name was mentioned in a

In Bad Doberan in Mecklenburg, twenty kilometres from Rostock, you will find the Bad Doberan summer toboggan run, which opened on 18 August 2013. The 721-metre-long track takes you through a ten-metre-high roundabout, seven steep curves and a bridge.

In June 2004, the BergTierPark Blindham, privately run by Josef Sedlmair, opened just 30 km from Munich, Rosenheim and Wolfratshausen. Native wild animals such as fallow deer, red deer and mouflon, wild boar, raccoons, nutria, ferrets and other species

Based on a first zoo from 1770, the first zoo was opened in 1972 under the Franco government in the Spanish capital Madrid. In 1997, the zoo was sold to Parques Reunidos, which operates the Weltvogelpark Walsrode, Movie Park Germany and Tropical Island

The Mühlhausen Spring Festival begins right on time on Easter Saturday. Around 40 fairground attractions provide varied entertainment and numerous culinary delights throughout the event. Special attractions such as Black Pearl, Break Dance and Auto

The Knüll Wildlife Park, which opened in 1968, is located in Homberg in the Schwalm-Eder district of North Hesse. Around 400 animals from 45 species live on the 50-hectare site of the wildlife park. You can see deer, wild sheep, Rhön sheep, pygmy

Only reopened in 2013, the Etnaland Aquapark was expanded to include the Etnaland Themepark and is one of the largest parks in Sicily.

With its opening times in summer from 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., it offers incomparable experiences.

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In Ödenburg near the Austrian border, 40 kilometres south of Vienna and 60 km from Neusiedlersee, a summer toboggan run awaits you with a track length of over 900 metres.

In Frielendorf in northern Hesse, in the Schwalm-Eder district, 45 km from Lake Edersee and Kassel, you will find the Silbersee Bob Frielendorf, which opened in 2000. In addition to the 820-metre-long Alpine Coaster made by Josef Wiegand GmbH & Co KG,