The Festival of Lights is an international event renowned for its temporary light installations during which the city is metamorphosed for four magical evenings, reconnecting with a popular tradition dating back to 1852.

Lyon Festival of Lights

FIESA is considered as the biggest sand theme park in the world with amazing sculptures that may reach up to twelve meters high and reproduce objects, people, and/or scenarios in amazing detail.

FIESA Sand Sculpture Festival

The festival offers a stage to artists from all over the world for two months. Artists submit their concepts through a worldwide distributed Call of Concepts where a jury selects the artworks that will become part of the festival.

Amsterdam Light Festival

Up Helly Aa is an annual fire festival which takes place in Lerwick, Scotland – usually on the last Tuesday in January. It involves a variety of visitations and marches, culminating in a torch-lit procession and the burning of a huge galley.

Up Helly Aa

The International Hot Air Balloon Festival of Château-d’Oex is an event held annually for two weeks at the end of January, the Alpine village of Château-d’Oex in Switzerland accommodates around eighty hot-air balloons from twenty different countries.

Château-d’Oex International Balloon Festival

City of Venice

The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy. This festival is well-known for its elaborate masks.

Venice Carnival

Secretariat of State for Tourism

The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is considered as the second most popular and internationally known carnivals, after the one held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Real de la Feria

Sevilla City

Feria de Abril de Sevilla (The Seville April Fair) is a festival that begins two weeks after the Easter Holy Week in Spain. This is a week of serious dancing, drinking, and eating. The Fair dates to 1847 when it was organized as a livestock fair.

Seville April Fair

Keukenhof Flower Exhibition is open annually from mid-March to mid-May. The best time to view the tulips and amazing flowers in the garden is around mid-April, depending on the weather. This garden is also known as the Garden of Europe.

Keukenhof Flower Exhibition

This event is also known as Alye Parusa (Алые паруса) and it is one of the most popular events of the city. It has been around since the ’60s at the end of every scholastic year. The tradition of celebrating the entry of childhood into adulthood was stopped in 1979 and revived 25 years later June 24, 2005.

The Scarlet Sails

Roskilde Festival is one of the largest festivals in Northern Europe, attracting more than 80.000 people each year. It is held in Roskilde, a city located on the Danish island of Zealand.

Roskilde Festival

The White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia is an annual international arts festival during the season of the midnight sun and consists of a series of classical ballet, opera, and music events.

The White Nights Festival

The festival of San Fermín in Pamplona is an extremely popular annual celebration held annually from 6 July. Over one million people each year participate in this unique festival. It has become the most internationally renowned fiesta in Spain.

The San Fermín Festival

Wacken Open Air festival is an open-air heavy metal music festival held annually in the village of Wacken, eighty kilometers northwest of Hamburg. This festival is usually held at the beginning of August and lasts for four days.

Wacken Open Air Festival

Lavender Festival (fr. Fête de la Lavande) is an annual event held on the 15th of August in the village of Sault in Southern France.

Lavender Festival in Sault

No one is completely certain how this event started. However, there is a popular saying which says that disgruntled people of the Bunol town rioted and attacked city councilmen with tomatoes during a town celebration sometime before 1945.

La Tomatina

It is a 30+ years long festival which attracts thousands of tourists. Over the years it has become a must-visit event on the Côte d’Opale coast. For more than a week, wind and sea enthusiasts can admire many giant and spectacular kites, each with its own originality.

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