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With the population over 210 000, The City of Tampere is one of Finland’s largest urban centres located on a narrow strip between two big lakes. Tampere is a luminous cultural city, a vibrant town full of theatre. Since 1968, the Tampere Theatre Festival has been one of the leading attractions of the city.

The Tampere Theatre Festival is one of Europe’s most important festivals of professional theatre serving as a display window for the finest Finnish and international productions. During the first week of August it offers a compact, yet high quality package of 21st century drama, modernised classics, dance theatre, contemporary circus and street theatre. 

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Bardentreffen festival is one of the biggest annual events in Nuremberg taking place over three days  in the city’s historic city center. The festival is attended by more than 200.000 visitors and across the 8 stages visitors can listen to famous artists from all over the world as well as artists nobody knows.People normally sit in the historic square of the old town, buy a beer and relax with the music played on stage-this is the beauty of this festival.

For more information about this year’s festival, please visit the Tourism Nuremberg website.

Dance, music, educational masserie, workshops, books, wine, beer and plenty of good food are the main ingredients of the 15th edition of Maglie Mercatino del Gusto. An opportunity to make visitors experience all the unique features of our region, with its rich bio-diversity and different cultures, in an atmosphere of mirth and festivity. The event draws its name from the ninety exhibitor stands placed in courtyards, gardens, squares, alleys and buildings around Maglie. A curious public will have the oppurtunity to discover the products of the culinary tradition of both Salento and Puglia, by interacting directly with dairy farmers,...

The Locus Festival represents one of the lynchpins of the overall cultural offer in Puglia, featuring a rich  program that spans many genres, from jazz and world music to singer-songwriter hits. It’s a happy synthesis between  artistic quality and the popularity of the events offered. Since its inception, the Locus Festival has focused on artists with an original and refined creative soul, able to create a bond with the spellbinding scenery of the Itria Valley, studded with small architectural jewels. An event that matches good music with the promotion of the territory. Locorotondo, a small hamlet...

Bregenz-Bodensee festival is different. An opera festival with two stages: a traditional opera house, home to less-known operas, and an open-air lakeside stage, where productions are held in the most spectacular fashion.

It must have been the wonderful location of the city by the lake and the beautiful environment that made a couple of clever minds set up a stage on two barges in 1946, bringing the Bregenzer Festspiele to life. The lake and the surrounding countryside were thus to be a central part of all productions from the start. 60 years later the Bregenzer Festspiele is an integrated part of...

Sastamala Gregoriana is an early Music Festival that combines an excellent international concert programme from medieval, renaissance and baroque periods, old lakeside churches of Sastamala with unique acoustic space and warm local atmosphere. This is something that deserves to be known and appreciated by local, national and international visitors. Sastamala Old Church is a gem of a venue for the performance of music that is contemporary with its history. Its vaulted wooden ceiling, rough hewn stone walls, dirt floor and quiet location combine to make it one of the finest acoustical environments in the world for solo vocal music and small ensembles. Its peaceful, natural environment gives it a further special character, and the surrounding silence...

The largest city-event in the Netherlands, the Rotterdam Unlimited represents a mix of music, dance, theatre and carnival and is held in Rotterdam’s inner city. The Carnival parade revolves around the Battle of Drums, the street parade and the ‘Queen election’.

More information

http://www.rotterdamunlimited.com

The Kuhmo Chamber Music festival was born in 1970 out of the quirky idea to take chamber music intro pristine nature, far away from the noise and pollution of the urban environment. The aim was to gather the world’s best chamber musicians to perform together in the front of the most knowledgeable chamber music audience. This idea became a reality in Kuhmo, on the eastern border of Finland some 600 km from the capital city of Helsinki.

The festival is Finland’s oldest chamber music festival and the largest when measured in visitor numbers. Each year, some 180 musicians gather together in Kuhmo to perform about 100 events, which together attract around 40,000 visits. Kuhmo has developed into one the most significant music...

The ”Luminarie” represent one of the most beautiful expressions of handicraft production in Southern Italy. These lines of colorful flickering lights, whose origins can be traced back to Roman times, have evolved their shapes, colours and materials over time in accordance with the cultures they came in contact with and the technical innovations used for manufacturing them.  The first historical record of the Luminarie dates back to 1500.  Modernity has not overcome tradition yet, and craftsmanship still reigns unchallenged. This is easy to see in the frameworks reaching 30 meters of height, which...

The successfully carried out first Soča Outdoor Festival 2013 left all participants enthralled, and proved that Tolmin, already recognized as a festival town, is also a perfect destination for a sport festival. This year’s mayor novelty is an additional location, Kobarid, where some more adrenalin programmes will take place, besides the usual recreational ones in Tolmin. Kobarid has already hosted an equally successful festival, Outdoor Show, some years ago. Right from the start the ambition of the festival is to become a leading event in the Soča valley, bring together the valley and help establish two trademarks: Dolina Soče (Soča Valley) and the festival trademark