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Location: Landshut | Germany Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| The Landshut Wedding of 1475 is Europe’s largest historical event and is celebrated only every four years. Along with thousands of other Europeans you will have the chance to visit the old Bavarian to.....
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| St. Patrick´s Day | |
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Location: Dublin | Ireland |
| Every March, Ireland awakes from a one-hundred-year-sleep to celebrate. March 17th, is St. Patrick’s Day, the day to celebrate the islands patron. The celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day are no longer a.....
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| Kaltenberger Ritterturnier | |
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Location: Kaltenberg | Germany Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Stepping through the great gate of the Kaltenberger place grounds on a weekend in July, one seems to travel back in time for centuries. The Kaltenberger Ritterturnier is a very special festival. For t.....
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| Vilnius Festival and Kryzin Kalnas | |
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Location: Vilnius | Lithuania |
| Today, Vilnius, the baroque beauty, once legendary Jewish-Polish-Lithuanian metropolis is again the capital of Lithuania and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Vilnius found itself under the hands of thirt.....
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| Medieval Week | |
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Location: Visby | Sweden Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| With its long beaches, steep cliffs, rural idyll and urban flair, Gotland, almost in the centre of the Baltic Sea, is one of the prettiest travel destinations in Scandinavia. The largest city is Visby.....
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| Mnarja | |
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Location: Rabat | Malta Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| It is hard to imagine that the Maltese Islands (Malta, Goza and a few uninhabited islands) used to be part of a land bridge between Sicily and northern Africa some 12,000 years ago. Today they lie 100.....
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| Golden Days | |
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Location: Copenhagen/ København | Denmark |
| The name “Denmark” first appeared on a rune stone in Viking king “Grom the Old’s” castle in the middle of the 9th century. From 1013 to 1035, Denmark had expanded beyond its borders and did a lot of t.....
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| Europaeisk Middelalder Festival | |
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Location: Horsens | Denmark Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| You can experience time-travel into the Middle Ages on the last Friday and Saturday of August in the centre of the city of Horsens. Each year, 500,000 jesters, musicians, pilgrims, monks, farmers, gue.....
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| Edinburgh Military Tatoo | |
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Location: Edinburgh | Great Britain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Highlands and glens, castles and whisky, kilts and bagpipes are the usual associations made with Scotland. A country of hills with many little islands and a complicated history attracts friends of nat.....
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| Festa Major | |
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Location: Vilafranca del Penedes | Spain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| The province of Tarragona is famous for its “Casteller”-fests, where teams of men try to erect a tower of people (Castell) standing on one another’s shoulders. It always depends on how many men form t.....
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"As a European I welcome the publication of this Top 500 Events guide. It's really much more. It's an encyclopaedia of regional traditions and customs in Europe , and a valuable journey planner for every European citizen. It will be my vademecum on trips throughout Europe in future.
I hope that you too will derive plenty of enjoyment from the guide, and that it will help to bring Europe still a little closer together."
Jacques Santer
Former Prime Minister of Luxemburg
Former President of the European Commission
