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Location: Funchal | Portugal Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Madeira, the “swimming garden in the middle of the Atlantic ocean” – the “island of everlasting spring” – has always been particularly magical. The year round mild temperature causes a luscious world .....
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Location: Madrid | Spain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| One for health, one for love, one for the career, one for… eating the twelve Madrilene fortune grapes at the Puerta del Sol. If at the twelfth stroke of the New Year’s bell not all of the “uvas de la .....
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Location: Berlin | Germany Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Berlin is the most exciting city between East and West, full of never-ending possibilities and constant changes. After the fall of the Wall the city had the opportunity to reshape the city centre. The.....
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Location: Rome/ Roma | Italy Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Where can one celebrate New Year’s Eve better than in the city, where the man, from whom the city received his name, lived the last days of his life? Pope Silvester, who was of great importance to Rom.....
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Location: Paris | France Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Paris on New Year’s Eve is an unforgettable event: the Avenue des Champs-Elysées is one of the prettiest and most lavish streets in the world. Ten thousand lights glow, during this time, along the ave.....
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| New Years Parade on Trafalgar Square | |
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Location: London | Great Britain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson (1758 - 1805) is the man with the best overview of London. No one should know London better than him. Since 1843 he has stood on a 55 meter tall granite column above th.....
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| Location: Edinburgh | Great Britain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
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| What is celebrated in the German speaking area with a couple of glasses of champagne, Fondue and a few rockets is a superlative event somewhere else. The farewell to the old year and the welcoming of .....
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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
