Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
TOLLWOOD FESTIVAL
Crowds flock to Munich's Olympiapark for this popular month-long world-culture festival
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with concerts, theatre, circus acts, readings and other fun events. Held from
late June to late July, and also has a winter incarnation in December.
CHRISTOPHER STREET DAY
Gay, lesbian, straight or transgender - everybody comes out to party at Munich's flashy
gay parade (
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held over two days in mid-July and attracting 50,000 revellers.
Provocative costumes, rainbow flags, techno music and naked torsos guaranteed.
SAMBA FESTIVAL
This unlikely orgy of song and dance in mid-July draws a quarter of a million people to
Coburg for three days of exotically colourful costumes, high-energy music and a proces-
sion of gyrating backsides (
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WAGNER FESTIVAL
This prestigious festival (
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held in Bayreuth from late July to August is
the
Wagner event of the year attracting opera-goers from every continent. Tickets are hard to
come by and the opera house is a hot and hard-seated ordeal.
August
Summer is at its peak, the kids are off school, campsites fill with an international
fleet of campervans, and the Alpine meadows reach their floral peak.
SOMMERFEST
Join in four days of gigs, food and partying by the River Neckar in Stuttgart (
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Held in early August, if the weather is hot the event attracts half a million revellers.
