Activitybreaks Features: Festivals of Europe

Festivals of Europe

If your travelling in Europe then we reccommend you experience these festivals:

Festival of Carnival/Mardi Gras from January 6th in Spain, France, Italy - most famously in Venice during mid February. Its time to choose your mask and hit the streets.

Cannes Film Festival - Want to spot some stars on the French Riveria then you need to be in Cannes from the 12-23rd May for one of the most prestigious film festivals of the world

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe - 6-30th August is the world's largest arts festival combining comedy, music, theatre, children's shows need we say more!

Tomatina - Bunol, Spain -Are you ready to brace getting a tomato in the eye? Tomatina takes place in the last Wednesday of each August and is a gigantic tomato food fight and party in the village of Bunol just outside Valencia

Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland 2-7th of July, this famous Jazz festival has had some super stars in its past line ups including Johnny Cash and Jimi Hendrix

Roskilde Music festival, Denmark (similar to Glastonbury) 1-4 July 2010

Electric Picnic 3-5 September 2010 Boutique Music and Arts Festival- County Laois, Ireland