WThe Bayfield Applefest is a fall harvest festival held in October, in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Founded in 1962, it has become a destination for many people from across the Midwest, with an annual attendance of approximately 60,000 people.
WThe Barthelmarkt is an annual Volksfest in Manching, near Ingolstadt, Germany. It is held on the last weekend of August and lasts four days. Every year, about 250,000 people visit it.
WBauernfest is a festival of Germanic traditions that takes place in the city of Petrópolis, in highlands region of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The festivities occurs since the period of the germanic colonization, but only gaining form in the 20th century. It occurs annually during the month of July.
WCzech Beer Festival is the biggest beer festival in the Czech Republic, held for 17 days every year in May in Prague. The festival features around 120 different beers, including 70 Czech brands and other foreign brews, including those from the United States or United Kingdom, with up to 10,000 seating capacity and service provide around 200 girls and boys dressed in Czech traditional costumes.
WEuroChocolate is an annual chocolate festival that takes place in Perugia, the capital of the Umbria region in central Italy. The festival has been held since 1993 and is one of the largest chocolate festivals in Europe. EuroChocolate draws nearly one million tourists and Italian natives each year. It lasts for nine days and is located in the squares and areas of Piazza Italia, Piazza Della Repubblica, Corso Vannucci, Via Mazzini, Via Fani, The Terrace of the Covered Market, and Piazza IV Novembre.
WFesta da Uva is a celebration of Italian heritage and culture held biennially in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. The Festa da Uva is held in February of every even-numbered year. During the Festa da Uva, the Caxias do Sul pavilions host attractions mainly from South America, but also from other regions of the world. Visitors taste cheese, grapes and various Brazilian wines. The large crowds also draw independent vendors who promote local-themed products from the southern gaúcho state.
WThe Florida Strawberry Festival is an annual event that takes place in Plant City, Florida. It was started in 1930 by the local Lions Club, a local philanthropy club dedicated to bettering the community, after several attempts by locals in the previous 20 years to promote the local strawberry crop. Beginning in 1929, the Lions Club worked to plan the festival honoring King Strawberry, the champion of the area's agricultural products. The festival lasts 11 days, and generates an attendance of about half a million patrons from all over Central Florida and other global nations. The festival is recognized as one of the best festivals in the US and ranks among the Top 40 Fairs in North America. The Festival admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children and free for kids under 5.
WThe International Rice Festival is an annual festival held during the third weekend in October in Crowley, Louisiana, celebrating rice. The event is Louisiana's oldest agricultural festival, and one of the state's largest. The first festival was held on October 5, 1937 as the National Rice Festival; it was renamed the "International Rice Festival" in 1946 when the festival was resumed after a hiatus during World War II (1942–1945). Since the Festival's beginnings, over seven million people have attended the annual event.
WMarejada is one of the most popular national Brazilian celebrations (fiestas) in Itajaí city, Santa Catarina state. This celebration commemorates the first disembarkation of European people from Portugal to the Brazilian coast. Marejada calling from word “mar” and can be translated as Portugalization. The festival also celebrates sea food—fishing is one of the main economic activities of Itajaí regions. The main food on this fiesta is sea food and the main drink is beer—it is why this fiesta looking like beer makers celebrate. Also this fiesta is folklore of Brazil. Symbols of Marejada—fish in cap and human face playing accordion, shrimps on the plate, one glass of beer, dancing group in national clothes—are painted on the souvenir plate from Marejada fiesta.
WA mushroom festival is a food festival in which mushrooms are featured. There are numerous mushroom festivals held annually in:Telluride Mushroom Festival in Telluride, Colorado Mushroom Festival at Mount Pisgah Arboretum in Eugene, Oregon Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Morel Mushroom Festival held in Harrison, Michigan and Boyne City, Michigan Fantastic Forage Mushroom Festival held in Laconia, New Hampshire Mushroom Mardi Gras Festival held in Morgan Hill, California Pacific Northwest Mushroom Festival in Lacey, Washington
WNaples Grape Festival is an annual festival in Naples, New York, United States, dedicated to grapes. The town of Naples is in the center of Finger Lakes American Viticultural Area (AVA), a region known for grape-growing and wine making in the Finger Lakes area of Upstate New York. Around 80,000 people attend the festival each year.
WThe National Cornbread Festival is a celebration of cornbread and cornbread-related activities. The festival is held in South Pittsburg, Tennessee since 1997 during the last full weekend in April. Among the attractions featured at the National Cornbread Festival are:The Cornbread Cookoff The Cornbread Eating Competition The Cornbread 5k Race Cornbread Alley Arts and Crafts from area vendors Tours of the Lodge Cast Iron Skillet Foundry Tours of historic South Pittsburg The Cornbread Classic Car Cruise-In Live music from performers including perennial favorite, Rhonda Vincent
WThe National Strawberry Festival in Belleville, Michigan, established in 1977, began as a way for local farmers to celebrate their strawberry crops. Taking place over three days, held the third weekend in June, the festival offers many events for people of all ages. In collaboration with area churches and schools, some of the events include:
WNational Tea Day is observed in the United Kingdom every year on 21 April to celebrate the drinking of tea. It is celebrated in tea rooms, hotels, pubs and cafés through special events, and charitable fundraising events held across the country, including a tea 'Fes-Tea-Val' at Chiswick House & Gardens in London. Tea brands and press outlets run promotions and features in conjunction with the day, including The Independent, Metro and The Telegraph, as well as local newspapers.
WOregon Brewers Festival (OBF) is a four-day craft beer festival held annually since 1988 at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland, Oregon, except 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic caused it to be cancelled. OBF has become the most popular outdoor beer festival in North America, based on attendance. Each brewery brings one beer. The attendance peaked in 2014, then it has been declining since.
WThe 'Sinukmani Festival' is a festival in Rosario, Batangas, Philippines held every 9th of June. Local establishments are the ones who put a long table 462 meters along with the sticky rice pastry sweet caramel topping. Rosario is known as the "Rice Granary of Batangas".
WA Taste of Colorado is a free, three-day outdoor festival held annually in Downtown Denver's Civic Center Park on Labor Day weekend, as the Festival of Mountain and Plain, a celebration of pioneer days, was around the turn of the 20th century. It is produced by and benefits Downtown Denver Events, Inc., a non-profit organization of the Downtown Denver Partnership that produces community and cultural events.
WTaste of the Danforth is a yearly festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Greektown area along Danforth Avenue for a period of three days in August, spawned from the Taste of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is currently Canada's largest street festival. It started in 1993, and in 2013 completed its 20th year of this event which celebrates Greek food and culture. The owner of Papa's Grill, a Greek cuisine on the Danforth stated Taste of the Danforth has "grown exponentially and we are still experiencing growth 20 years to the day"
WA Taste of Tippecanoe is a one-day summer festival held in downtown Lafayette, Indiana on the third Saturday in June. The festival, which generally draws around 40,000 people, focuses on providing visitors a wide selection of foods from community restaurants, plus live musical entertainment. It is operated by the Tippecanoe Arts Federation and is the organization's primary fundraiser. It was founded by Lafayette citizen Steve Klink.
WThe Whitstable Oyster Festival is an annual event held in Whitstable, Kent, England, each year to celebrate the town's links with the oyster industry.
WThe World Pizza Championship is an event held annually to determine the world's best pizza makers. It began in 1991 and is organised by the magazine Pizza e Pasta Italiana and PizzaNew. In 2008, over 20 countries competed Pizzas are judged by preparation, taste, bake and presentation. Pizza competitions include those for the fastest pizza maker, freestyle acrobatics and the largest dough stretch. Salsomaggiore Terme (Parma), Italy, is the site of the championships, although several other cities likewise claim to be the home of the ultimate international pizza games including Naples and Paris.
WThe Yambilee Festival is a discontinued festival that was held annually in Opelousas, Louisiana. The Yambilee Festival started on the Wednesday of the last full weekend of October and continued throughout the weekend.