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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

Tomorrowland Festival was first held back in 2005 and since then it became one of the world’s largest and most notable music festivals. It lasts for two weekends and usually sells out in minutes!

Tomorrowland 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

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

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.

RICV International Kite Festival

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 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

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

Stuttgart Wine Festival

The Sziget Festival is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe and it’s held every August on a large island on the Danube – the second largest river in Europe. More than one thousand performances take place on this spot annually.

Sziget 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

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

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

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 started in 1984 and since then it grew into a popular tourist attraction. There are 500 different events during the festival, including music, jesters, theatre, storytelling, medieval market, tournaments and much more.

Gotland Medieval Week

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

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

Since 1981 in the fall, the small town of Largs hosts this festival. It is founded to encourage tourism and to celebrate the 1263 Battle of Largs, the last mainland battle between the Scots and Norse.

Largs Viking 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

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

National Theatre

Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) started in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo and military aggression of Yugoslavia on Bosnia and Herzegovina. From that period, the SFF welcomes domestic and international actors and filmmakers to Sarajevo.

Sarajevo Film Festival

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

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.

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