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Results for: Fairs/Festivals

• 2camels
  the home of festivals on the web. If you have a taste for the bizarre, an interest in foreign customs or are just plain curious as to what festivals gets celebrated in far away lands, then this is the place.
• AppleJack Festival in Nebraska City
  Takes place each year on the third weekend of September. Celebrating the Nebraska apple harvest, the annual festival features a parade, the Miss AppleJack Pageant, the Jam Fest, air shows, antique car shows, arts and crafts exhibits, handmade quilts, a pie baking contest and much more.
• Best Festivals and Events in Europe
  According to BootsnAll Travel
• Calendar of Events
  Music Festival, Halifax St Pierre Regata, Bastille Day, Miquelon Seafood Festival, The Basque Festival
• Connecticut Garlic & Harvest Festival
  Visit the garlic cooking demonstrations, stay for a live band performance, and learn how to grow garlic at the informative lectures. Many garlic dips, spreads, cheeses, and oils will be available for purchase from the diverse garlic specialty food vendors — most offering FREE samples to try before you buy! Stop by the produce stands for fresh garlic and a variety of other fall produce. When you're hungry, venture over to the food court. Homemade roasted garlic sausage with peppers and onions, garlic marinated steak sandwiches, garlic roast pork sandwiches, deep fried garlic, and garlic ice cream are just some of the items you'll find at the food court! Bring the kids for some fun with rides and games!
  Address: Bethlehem Fairgrounds in Bethlehem, CT
  Telephone: 203.266.7810
  Email: [email protected]
• Cranberry Harvest Celebration
  The Celebration is a way to showcase this unique industry and its impact on our economy and our culture in southeastern Massachusetts.
  Address: 158 Tihonet Road, Wareham, MA
  Telephone: +1 508.322.4000
  Email: [email protected]
• Dallas Harvest Festival
  Chili cook-off, rides, kiss the pig contest. Main Street, Dallas
• Edinburgh International Festival
  The Edinburgh International Festival is over fifty years old and has earned its reputation as one of the world's greatest celebrations of the arts.
• European Heritage Days
  Once a year, citizens in 50 countries celebrate Europe's cultural heritage. This initiative of the European Heritage Days, launched by the Council of Europe in 1991, has been since 1999 a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission, putting new cultural assets on view and opening up historical buildings normally closed to the public.
• Féte du Jasmin—Jasmine Festival
  In early August, Grasse celebrates the jasmine flower.
• Festival d'Avignon
  A popular and contemporary artistic adventure. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, the Avignon Festival is today one of the most important contemporary performing arts events in the world. Every year in July, Avignon becomes a city-theater, transforming its architectural heritage into various performance venues, majestic or surprising, welcoming tens of thousands of theater-lovers (over 130,000 admissions) of all ages. Its legendary space is the "Cour d'honneur" (main courtyard) of the Popes' Palace, the heart of outdoor performances, before nearly 2,000 spectators, on summer nights in Provence.
  Address: Cloître St-Louis, 20 rue du portail Boquier, 84000 Avignon
  Telephone: +33 (0)4 90 27 66 50
  Email: [email protected]
• Festivals in France
  2camels' special take on 64 wonderful fairs, celebrations, holidays, carnivals and festivals of France.
• Festivy
  
  Holidays, Festivals, Events & Celebrations Calendar for Malaysia and Singapore. Festivals, Destinations, Tourist Attractions, Places to Visit, Travel Tips, Sightseeing and Public Holidays
  Contact Page: http://festivy.com/contact-us/

  
  
  
• Florence Gelato Festival
  Held in May, check the Florence Events Calendar for dates.
• Garlic Festival at Olde Mistick Village
  To celebrate the fall harvest, many local farmers will have a variety of Garlic for sale as well as fresh produce. Farmers will also have honey, jams, preserves and maple syrups. Throughout the day and evening, several favorite local restaurants will be offering free tastes, or serving for purchase, delicious garlic related foods. A host of merchants, artisans, and artists will line the pathways of Olde Mistick Village displaying their foods, crafts, gifts, and talents. Along with nearly fifty vendors, many of the forty Olde Mistick Village merchants will be offering garlic related activities or products at their stores.
  Address: Olde Mistick Village, Mystic, CT
  Telephone: 860.912.6184
  Email: [email protected]
• Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello
  Thomas Jefferson, America's First foodie, championed vegetable cuisine, plant experimentation and sustainable agriculture. Taste a bounty of heirloom fruits and vegetables and learn about organic gardening and seed-saving during this fun, affordable, family-friendly festival — unlike any other — held on the breathtaking West Lawn of Jefferson's Monticello.
  
  Address: 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway, Charlottesville, VA
  
  
  
• Hood River Valley Harvest Fest
  Hood River Valley hosts an old-fashioned harvest festival with local produce and food products, arts and crafts, wine and beer tastings: all the best our County has to offer.
  
  Address: 110 Portway Avenue, Hood River, Oregon
  Telephone: +1 541.386.2000
  Email:
  
  
  
• Hunter Mountain
  Click on the link for Festivals and to get information about the German Alps Festival, the International Celtic Festival, Octoberfest, the Wine, Wing and Brew Fest, and more. Located in Hunter, New York.
• Ivrea Carnival and Orange Battle
  Festival in Ivrea, Italy, held on the traditional carnival date, 40 days before Lent.
• Lake of Stars Malawi Festival
  Sunbird Nkopola Lodge, Mangochi, Malawi. vinspired Lake of Stars Festival 2010. The festival will return to the shores of Lake Malawi for three sun filled days of music, arts and culture. Get ready for a life changing experience and prepare yourself for the warm heart of Africa...
• Maine Harvest Festival
  Celebrating Farm Fresh.
  Address: 100 Dutton St, Bangor, ME
  Telephone: +1 207.947.5555
  Email: [email protected]
• Map of some of the Italian Food Festivals
  Information from Capucina's Italian-American Connections WebPages
• Napoli Bike Festival
  Part of Naples celebration of the European Week of Sustainable Mobility, for three days, the city will be peacefully invaded by tons of bicycles for the first city festival dedicated entirely to those who love cycling.
• Napoli Folk Style
  Free admission to an event with a hundred tammurriata musicians, A gathering designed by musician Mimmo Maglionico, dedicated to the folk music of Campania, in concert on Naples beautiful waterfront. Held in July
• National Apple Harvest Festival
  Held during the first two weekends in October, celebrating beautiful crafts, great music and wonderful food for forty years. The festival has something for everyone with hundreds of arts and crafts dealers, demonstrations, contests, food stands, and entertainment. The festival is located in the heart of Pennsylvania Apple country, near historic Gettysburg, and is within a two hour drive of Washington DC, Baltimore MD, and Harrisburg PA.
  Address: 615 Narrows Road, Biglerville, PA
  Telephone: +1 717.677.9413
  Email: [email protected]
• North Carolina Pecan Harvest Festival
  The objective of the North Carolina Pecan Grower's Association is to encourage and promote research and education in all phases of the pecan industry, to interact with others in the interest of pecan growers throughout the region, and to promote pecans as a commercial crop in North Carolina. One of their prime opportunities is as a sponsor of the NC Pecan Harvest Festival.
  
  Address: Whiteville, NC
  Telephone: +1 910.234.0261
  Email:
  
  
  
• Salone del Gusto
  
  The five-day food festival,
  Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre:
  A Single Event in Turin, Italy.
  
  
  
• Sherbeth Festival — Festival Internazionale del Gelato a Cefalù
  Ice cream shops from all over Sicily will be offering their products along the main street of Cefalù.
  Address: Ufficio Turismo — Comune di Cefalè Corso Ruggero, 139/B 90015 Cefalè (PA) Italy
  Telephone: +39 091 6256817
  Email: [email protected]
• Sonoma County Harvest Fair
  a celebration of the local harvest featuring three full days of wine tasting with 150+ wineries, wine sales, marketplace, chef demonstrations and workshops, farm and harvest agricultural activities for children and adults, the World Championship Grape Stomp, live music, an art show and sale, crafters pavilion, farm animals to meet, and much more.
  
  Address: 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa, CA
  Telephone: +1 707.545.4203
  Email: [email protected]
  
  
  
• Spoleto Festival
  For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolina's historic theaters, churches, and outdoor spaces with over 120 performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers in disciplines ranging from opera, theater, music theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral, and jazz music, as well as the visual arts.
• Stone Barns Harvest Fest
  Celebration of the farm at its most fruitful. Festivities for the whole family include live music, a farmer's market with delicious seasonal fare, hayrides, farm demonstrations and amazing adult and family workshops with farmers and food experts.
  
  Address: 630 Bedford Road, Pocantico Hills, NY
  Telephone: +1 914.366.6200
  Email: [email protected]
  
  
  
• Sun Valley Harvest Festival
  Foodie Heaven: The Sun Valley Harvest Festival will feature regional food, wines and beers from farms, vineyards, and ranches around Idaho and the Northwest. The Festival will take place in one of the most beautiful places in the world, World Famous Sun Valley, Idaho.
  
  Address: Sun Valley, Idaho
  Telephone: +1 208.450.6430
  Email: [email protected]
  
  
  
• The Quintana (July and August)
  The Quintana tournament in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, is a popular manifestation having medieval origins. More than a thousand people in costume parade along the old town streets, knights wearing armour, while the beautiful ladies wear precious dresses designed according to models derived from XIV century paintings. The festival has its climax once the parade has reached its destination, the tournament between the knights on horseback, from the different city boroughs ("sestrieri") starts, and the fight for the Palio begins. The celebrations go on into the evening, with impressive fireworks along the riverbanks and medieval banquets.
• Tuscan Coast and Islands Walking Festival
  Everyone is free to join the hiking and trekking offered by the Walking Festival, but it is best if you reserve a place in order to help coordinators organize groups and excursions so that there is not an overload of participants in each group. Isola del Giglio; Isola d'Elba; Isola Di Capraia; Isola Pianosa
• Umbria Jazz
  Piazza Danti 28, 06122 Perugia, Italy Telephone: +39.075.5732432 Email: [email protected] From the moment of its birth in 1973, Umbria Jazz was clearly different from the other Italian jazz festivals. While jazz was usually to be heard in small clubs and occasionally in theatres and concert halls, Umbria Jazz took the music into the historic town squares of Umbria to audiences of up to twenty thousand young people. In 1982, the Festival was revived in a new form which reflected the public's changing approach to the music; there was a greater interest in its artistic value and less interest in the festival as a mass event.
• Union Fair
  "A Real Maine Agricultural Fair" Featuring the Maine Wild Blueberry Festival. Union, Maine. The fair usually runs during August. See the web site for dates for this year's fair.

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair — Kahlil Gibran

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Open my heart and you will see, graved inside of it, Italy. — Robert Browning

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Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you've travelled. — Muhammad