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Top Festivals Around the World in July

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Top Festivals Around the World in July

Music City

Nashville, Tenessee, USA: 4th July 2018
(4th July 2019)  One of the biggest 4th of July festivals in the USA, with an amazing fireworks display and some of the best country music the south can offer. Find out more.

San Fermin Festival

Pamplona, Spain: 6-13th July 2018 (6-13th July 2019) Made Famous because of the running of the bulls, where the bulls are lead through the streets of the old quarter every morning of the festival lead to the bullring by many celebrators wearing white. But La Fiesta de San Fermin has many other folkloric events to check out. Find out more. More Info.

Pflasterspektakel

Linz, Austria: 19-21st July 2018
(2019 TBA) A huge street art festival celebrated for three days each summer, the festival (whose name means “pavement spectacle” in German) brings together dancers, musicians, mimes, clowns, high-wire walkers, acrobats, fire twirlers, plus performers so unique that they defy classification—and sometimes gravity. Find out more.

Festival Internacional de Benicàssim ( FIB 2018)
 
Benicassim, Valencia, Spain: 19th- 22nd July 2018 (2019 TBA) Benicassim Festival 2018 or Festival Internacional de Benicàssim ( FIB 2018) as it is known in Spain is a 4-day music festival taking place in Benicassim on the east coast of Spain between Valencia and Barcelona. The amazing thing about FIB isn’t just the incredible lineup or the price but that you can forget about taking your wellies as this is a beach holiday by day and a rad festival all night. Find out more.

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Top Festivals Around the World in May

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Top Festivals Around the World in May

Hamamatsu Festival

Hamamatsu, Japan: 3rd- 5th May 2018 (3rd-5th May 2019) Over the huge sand dunes of Nakatajima, more than 100 kites are flown until – the sound of a trumpet – the kite fliers compete to cut each other’s strings and bring the other kites down. Then by night, decorated floats parade through Hamamatsu’s city centre. Find out more.

Cinco de Mayo

Puebla City, Mexico:5th May 2018 (5th May 2019) Cinco de Mayo (5 May in Spanish) is mostly celebrated in the Puebla region of Mexico as this is the site of the battle. Here, re-enactments, as well as floats, mariachis and margarita, fuelled locals, keep the famous festival going into the night. Find out more.Cheung Chau Bun Festival

Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong 19th -23rd May 2018 (12th-16th may 2019) Just a short ferry ride away from Hong Kong city, Cheung Chau Island is the setting for this boisterous annual celebration, with most of the events taking place at Pak Tai Temple as the most important religious site on the island. Over the week that coincides with Buddha’s birthday, bun-covered bamboo towers are erected, with lion dances, colourful parades in which participants dress as folkloric characters, and the festival’s main event, a bun scrambling competition. Find out more.

Primavera Sound

Barcelona, Spain 28th May - 3rd June 2018
(2019 TBA) The early-summer festival based in Barcelona, an event that finds room for everything from indie to R&B to experimental techno, and all while delivering an impressive line up of each one with acts such as Lorde, Björk and the Arctic Monkeys. Find out more.

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Top Festivals Around the World in June

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Top Festivals Around the World in June

White Nights Festival/Scarlet Sails

St.Petersburg, Russia: 23rd June 2018
(22nd June 2019) Scarlet Sails is just one part of the white nights festival, including spectacular fireworks, concerts, and a mock battle among pirates in boats on the Neva River. Find out more.

Festival of the Sun (inti raymi)

Cusco, Peru: 24th June 2018 (24th June 2019) An ancient festival celebrating the sun god with Expositions, street fairs, and live music. Find out more.

Glastonbury Music Festival

Somerset, England:
26th June 2019 (Cancelled 2018 due to a fallow year of the festival) A five-day music and contemporary arts festival with some of the worlds biggest named performers come together for the ultimate music festival in Somerset, England. Find out more.
Spanish La Batalla del Vino Festival (The Wine Fight)

Haro, Spain: 29 June 2018
(29th June 2019) Each year on the feast day of patron saint San Pedro/Peter, thousands of thirsty locals and a handful of lucky (wine addicted) tourists climb a mountain in La Rioja, Spain, and throw the sweet red liquid all over each other. Find out more.

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Top Festivals Around the World in March

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Top Festivals Around the World in March

The Carnival of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 2nd-9th March 2019 (9-18 February  2018) A week festival that is held before Lent every year with two million people per day, with an extravagant parade, dancing, colours and alcohol that makes this one of the most exciting and well-known festivals in the world. Find out more.

Mardi Gras

New Orleans, USA: 5th March 2019 (February 13, 2018) Mardi Gras, or "Fat Tuesday," The most popular time to visit New Orleans, is the last day of the Carnival season and never disappoints with beads, parades, music and dance. Find out more.

The Battle of the Oranges

Ivrea, Italy: 2nd-5th March 2019
(10-13 February 2018) An enormous food fight where people form organised teams and throw oranges at each other. Find out more.

Frozen Dead Guy Days

Nederland, Colorado: 9th- 11th March 2019
Known as one of the most unique and quirky festivals in the USA, Frozen Dead Guy Days takes place in the Colorado mountain town of Nederland, with three days of frosty hilarity featuring 30 live bands in heated tents and outrageous events like coffin races, costumed polar plunging, frozen t-shirt contests and much more. Find out more.

Calle Ocho

Miami, Florida, USA: 10th March 2019 (11th March 2018) Let the Latin beat take you away at the Calle Ocho street festival in Miami's Little Havana. An exciting Cuban street festival in Little Havana, with food and live music. Find out more.

Las Fallas

Valencia, Spain: 15th-19th March 2019 Las Fallas is undoubtedly one of the most unique festivals in Spain - a Spanish fiesta where the whole town is literally set alight. The focus of the festival is the creation and burning of giant carton floats. Find out more.

Saint Patrick’s Day Festival

Dublin, Ireland: 17th March
 2019 Irelands national holiday of parades, costumes, music, comedy, films, and drinking. It is a festival like no other that needs to be added to your bucketlist. Find out more.

Holi Festival

India: 20th -21st March 2019 
(1st-2nd March 2018) A Hindus and Sikh Festival, in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka that celebrates the triumph of 'good' over 'bad'. The main day of this incredibly fun 16-day religious festival is honoured by throwing coloured powder and water at each other. Find out more.

Ultra Music Festival

Miami, Florida:
 29th- 31st March 2019 The world's premier electronic music festival, boasting elite DJs and unparalleled production located in the beautiful city of Miami. Find out more.

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