Music Festivals
Annually about 100 music festivals are held in Germany between spring and fall. The more popular ones are the Munich Opera Festival, the Dresden Music Festival and the Berlin Jazz days. But the top music festival is the Richard Wagner Festspiele in Bayreuth which draws the most crowd.
Landshuter Furstenhochzeit
When translated in means The Landshut Wedding of the Prince. This is a splendour festival celebrated in Germany to commemorate the wedding of the Bavarian Prince. Since 1903 the wedding has been re-enacted every three years right down to the processions and medieval tournaments.
Berlin's Love Parade
This modern folk festival which is a celebration for the techno music fans takes place in the German capital on the second Saturday of July since 1989. This festival, like Oktoberfest, has become an export hit. Love parades are now celebrated in places like Vienna and Mexico City.
Wine and Beer Festivals
The largest wine festival in the world and also celebrated by Germans is in Bad Durkheim in the Palatinate. Ironically being called Wurstmarkt (Sausage Market) it attracts half a million people annually.
However the most popular and widely recognised festival Germany is known for is hands’ down Munich’s Oktoberfest. In terms of size of the event and popularity, Oktoberfest is Germany’s largest alcoholic festival in the world which last for 16 days in the last two weeks of September. This festival attracts about seven million people a year.
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