Festivals

Every December the citizens of Geneva celebrate the time their city was saved by a cauldron of boiling soup.

These colourful stilt-walkers trace back to pre-slavery Africa. Today they are a symbol of freedom.

Eat, drink and be merry with the people from one of Europe’s last traditional cultures.

Join locals and visitors alike at this wild music festival amongst the decaying hulks of the Aral Sea.

Every February, thousands of nearly-naked men run through Japanese temples to ensure a year of good luck.

Every year 'monsters' rampage through a tiny village in Georgia to demand gifts in return for a bountiful spring.

In the small North Macedonian village of Galicnik, everyone gets married on the same day.

Every August steampunks from around the world descend on Lincoln to party like it’s 1899.

Every year Wodaabe men gather to steal each other’s wives. All for the good of the tribe.

Every May Day long weekend things get a little 'Wicker Man' down on the south coast of England.