The Grape Throwing Festival or Festa des Vermar is an annual event, held during the last weekend in September, in the wine-growing village of Binissalem in Mallorca, one of Spain's Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean. The festival celebrates the grape harvest and the main attractions include a grape-stomping competition, grape-throwing fight,

Up Helly Aa Fire Festival, which literally means “Up Holy (Day) All” Fire Festival, is Europe’s largest fire festival, which takes place in Lerwick, Shetland in Scotland, on the last Tuesday in January every year. It marks the end of the Yule season. The festival is held to mark the Islands’

Guadix and Baza are two Andalusian towns in the Province of Granada in Spain. It is said that, long ago while working on the site of a church in Baza, Cascamorras, a worker from Guadix, found a secret image of Virgen de la Piedad (Our Lady of Mercy), buried in

Strictly speaking, Burning Man is neither a festival, nor a carnival. It is just an event, a weeklong annual event that takes place in the Black Rock City, a city temporarily created in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, USA. By sheer global popularity, today it has taken the shape

During the year 2003, a group of talented sculptors from various parts of the world gathered together in Pera, in the Algarve region of Portugal, to build the first major sand sculpture event.  Some Portuguese artists, who wished to try to sculpt in this new medium, also joined them and

Organized by the St Petersburg City Administration, the White Nights Festival begins in May, along with Stars of the White Nights, a classical ballet, opera and orchestral performances at the Mariinsky Theatre and the Mariinsky Concert Hall. The festival officially ends in July. However, some performances connected to the festival

The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, held in Harbin, China, is an annual winter festival with a theme. It is said that the festival is the largest of its kind in the world.  Officially, it is held from January 5 to February 5 every year. However, depending upon

Pflasterspektakel is a German word, which stands for,” pavement spectacle”. It is an annual street art festival in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. In this particular case, street art does not actually refer to graffiti-style paintings, instead it includes a variety of performances, like street theatre shows, concerts of

Mardi Gras in the US is synonymous with the city of New Orleans. It is a festival of beads and booze. It is generally associated with a huge street party and has now become an iconic carnival, celebrated in many countries around the world. In fact, Madri Gras is a

Every year on the last Monday of May, United States of America observe the Memorial Day for remembering the people who died while serving the country’s armed forces. On that day, many people visit cemeteries and memorials, to honor those who have lost their lives in military service and place flowers