Festivals in July
July Festivals
25 July Festival Articles 58 July Festival Snippets 103 July Festival Photo Galleries 40 July Festival Videos 226 July Festival Websites
Festivals in July - 25 Articles
Article Title: Festival of San Fermin
Festival Name: San Fermin
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Party
The Festival of San Fermin, first made famous outside of Spain by Ernest Hemingway in his novel 'The Sun Also Rises' (also known as 'Fiesta')
Article Title: Three and a Half Ton of Bull
Festival Name: San Fermin - Running of the Bulls
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Party, Sport - Bizarre
My stomach was churning, my palms sticky, my heart smashing at the inside of my ribcage. I put on a brave face. Strange to think that I'd paid to be here.
Article Title: Love Parade
Festival Name: Love Parade
Festival Country: Germany
Festival Type(s): Music - Electronic, Party, Dance
Love Parade is the largest techno gathering in the world. The tradition started 10 years ago with a few hundred ravers and has grown to a million and a half people. That's right: 1.5 million people.
Article Title: Mondo Croquet
Festival Name: Mondo Croquet World Championships
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Sport - Stick and Ball, Bizarre
In the history of sports, time seems to enlarge things: Numbers of participating teams, salaries, opportunities to shill stuff. Is it any surprise that the Oregon city that advises itself to "Keep Portland weird!" would upgrade to Mondo Croquet, which uses 16-pound sledgehammers and bowling balls for their games?
Article Title: Wife Carrying
Festival Name: Wife Carrying World Championships
Festival Country: Finland
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Party
At the Wife Carrying World Championships held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, it's the husband who does the schlepping - the wife holds on for dear life - across a course that's over two-and-a-half football fields in length and punctuated with sand, hurdles, water obstacles, and gravel pits
Article Title: Quebec Summer Festival
Festival Name: Quebec Summer Festival
Festival Country: Canada
Festival Type(s): Summer, Music - Varied, Community
Quebec is a city made for getting lost, where wandering the streets is a pastime, and during Summer Festival there is no telling what performance you may encounter just by rambling
Article Title: Independence Day - Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Festival Name: Independence Day
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): National, Historical
The setting is the Independence Day Celebration at Old Sturbridge Village, the granddaddy of New England's living history museums, located in the real-life town of Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Article Title: World Series of Poker
Festival Name: World Series of Poker
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Poker
It was the summer of '49 when a chronic gambler by the unassuming name of Nicholas Dandolos - who went by the almost as unassuming handle "Nick the Greek" - approached another probably suitably nicknamed chap (the records don't show) by the name of Benny Binion with a little proposition.
Article Title: The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
Festival Name: Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Dragon Boat, Sport - Water, Traditional
The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival is an awesome display of Asian arts, food and of course the main event of dragon boat racing.
Article Title: Summer Festival of El Vendrell
Festival Name: Summer Festival of El Vendrell
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Summer, Traditional, Cultural
There is a really special Catalan destination that combines sun and sand with a twist of magic for four days at the end of July. The Festa Major of Vendrell (Summer Festival) celebrates the day of Saint Anna on and around the 26th July in true Mediterranean style.
Article Title: The Exciting Guelaguetza - The Epitome of Mexican Festivals
Festival Name: Guelaguetza
Festival Country: Mexico
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural, Religious
"You should be here in July when we hold our annual Guelaguetza. It's the most beautiful festival in the world." My Zapotec Indian taxi driver in Oaxaca, capital of Mexico's most colourful state, exuded pride as he talked about his state's national dance extravaganza.
Article Title: World Pillow Fighting Championships
Festival Name: World Pillow Fighting Championships
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
Anyone over the age of 14 can enter as long as they leave their maturity outside the arena. Competition begins by straddling a slippery wet pole suspended over a pit of mud.
Article Title: World Body Painting Festival
Festival Name: World Body Painting Festival
Festival Country: Austria
Festival Type(s): Art, Bizarre
Colors fly in a weeklong event known as the Mecca for body painting. A quaint Austrian town plays host as artists from around the world come to feast their eyes on the wonders of nature and all who are naturally painted.
Article Title: Siena Palio
Festival Name: Siena Palio
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Sport - Equestrian, Sport - Bizarre, Traditional
It was Palio, the biggest event in a Sienese year. When the local contrada's (districts) take to the track with their finest horses and race for a coveted silk banner. When horses become Gods, passions are high and the square fills with the excitement of a race for glory.
Article Title: Canada Day in London
Festival Name: Canada Day
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): National, Historical, Party
Canadians seldom get vocal about much. There are loads of us in London but we never make ourselves known like our fellow Aussie and Kiwi working holidaymakers. A big reason for that could be that we don't have many events in London to support, but when July 1st rolls around, Canadians flock to the Maple Leaf pub in Covent Garden to show their patriotism.
Article Title: Blobfest Brings 'B' Sci-Fi Horror Film Back to Life
Festival Name: Blobfest
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Film, Bizarre
Indescribable... Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop It!' So reads the tagline of the 1950s Sci-Fi classic, The Blob. And nothing seems to be stopping a festival that brings this kitschy film back to life.
Article Title: Medieval Pageantry Lives On
Festival Name: Ommegang
Festival Country: Belgium
Festival Type(s): Medieval, Historical, Re-enactments
Brussels' Grand Place is packed with spectators, including the Royal Family and their guests, for the annual Ommegang, or 'walk about' in Dutch, the major annual event in the city since 1549. Although historians believe it began as a religious ritual in the 14th Century, the huge parade and festival is now devoid of religious connotations and focuses on local folklore and heritage.
Article Title: Midsummer Nights Magic
Festival Name: Quebec Fireworks Competition - Les Grands Feux Loto
Festival Country: Canada
Festival Type(s): Fireworks
Missing were the 'ooos' and 'ahhhs' heard at typical fireworks displays. The people sitting huddled under panchos and sheltered under a rainbow of umbrellas came to Montmorency Falls, just outside Quebec City, to witness a special kind of magic - the final display of the three-week long Les Grands Feux Loto-Quebec fireworks competition. A steady rain didn't stop them and neither did a mist so thick they could taste it.
Article Title: Raving in Klickitat - Black Lights and Naked Yoga
Festival Name: Phoenix Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Dance, Music - Electronic
At 8 a.m. Friday morning, I was sitting on a dry Eastern Washington hill sharing a smoke with two hippies. They'd driven up from San Francisco to play on the Phoenix Family sound system, which was thumping out psychedelic trance on the slope below us. One of the hippies gestured to a long rectangular canvas event tent.
Article Title: Yowah Opal Festival
Festival Name: Yowah Opal Festival
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Local, Collectors
With all this devastation there is a strange beauty about the place. There is certainly a beauty about the gemstone that the locals find here. Yowah is the home of the Yowah Nut. A nondescript brown stone on the outside , but when split in two, can reveal a beautiful iron stone centre with strange patterns and crystal opal either in a pocket or often spread throughout the stone.
Article Title: Respect
Festival Name: Respect Festival
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Multicultural, Music - World, Music - Varied
It was a beautiful summers day in London and I was on the way to RESPECT - an Anti-racism and Multicultural Festival. This annual event has been held in July, for the past 2 years in various parks around London. This year the festival was held in Victoria Park, Hackney.
Article Title: Galway Races - Where the Pint is the Unit of Currency!
Festival Name: Galway Races
Festival Country: Ireland
Festival Type(s): Sport - Equestrian, Party
Throughout Ireland people of all ages and occupations prepare for the Galway Races with a fervour that is almost religious in its intensity. Budgets are planned, holidays are arranged and business is scheduled to conform with the sacrosanct dates of the annual week-long festival.
Article Title: Tanabata Festival
Festival Name: Tanabata Festival
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional
If you love romance this is the festival for you! On the seventh night of the seventh moon, or July 7th, Tanabata is celebrated. Tanabata is also known as the Star Festival or the Festival of the Star-Crossed Lovers. First celebrated in 755, this festival as well as many others began with a popular legend.
Article Title: Volunteering in the Land of the Blue Sky
Festival Name: Naadam Festival
Festival Country: Mongolia
Festival Type(s): Sport - Equestrian, Traditional
Sun baked soil billowed around us, thrown up by hundreds of horses' hooves. As I stepped back to avoid the nomads streaming past on their stocky mounts I could feel dust particles grinding between my teeth and sticking to my skin. It had been less than two weeks since I had left the British Isles with a group of nine other volunteers to take part in a work and travel scheme in Mongolia working for the Mongolian Youth Development Centre (MYDC) for the summer, but we had been lucky enough to be given a couple of days off for the national Naadam Festival.
Article Title: Meet me on the Green
Festival Name: Green River Rendezvous
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Indigenous, Historical, Traditional
Kick up the dust. Put on your best cowboy duds and get ready for some real down-home Americana at the Green River Rendezvous in Pinedale, Wyoming, a annual pageant offering a colorful collection of mountain men, explorers, Indians and well orchestrated drama showing the history of the region with a western bent.
Festivals in July - 58 Snippets
Festival Name
Festival Country
USA
Greenland
USA
England
Barbados
Australia
USA
Australia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Germany
Spain
Germany
Slovenia
USA
USA
Croatia
Malaysia
Italy
Spain
England
USA
England
Canada
France
USA
Finland
Festivals in July - 103 Photo Galleries
Festival Name
Festival Country
Finland
Finland
Finland
Greenland
Romania
Romania
Germany
England
England
Wales
England
Spain
Australia
USA
Ireland
Croatia
Croatia
Germany
Finland
Finland
Finland
England
Lebanon
Chile
Switzerland
Germany
Australia
Mexico
England
England
Malaysia
Spain
Germany
Switzerland
Croatia
Mongolia
Belgium
Belgium
Canada
Finland
Finland
Finland
Finland
Spain
Italy
England
England
Czech Republic
Turkey
Netherlands
Netherlands
Finland
Finland
Finland
Spain
Austria
Spain
England
Italy
South Africa
England
Netherlands
England
England
Canada
England
Italy
Finland
Finland
England
England
England
England
Austria
Austria
Finland
Festivals in July - 40 Videos
Festival Name
Festival Country
Spain
Switzerland
Barbados
Australia
Australia
Chile
England
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Japan
England
France
Germany
England
Russia
Spain
Japan
Spain
Greece
Croatia
Malaysia
USA
Spain
Italy
Japan
France
Austria
Germany
Puerto Rico
Festivals in July - 226 Websites
Festival Name
Festival Country
Denmark
Wales
Australia
Croatia
Netherlands
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Canada
Portugal
Romania
Lebanon
Spain
Germany
England
Bermuda
Switzerland
England
Switzerland
Austria
Australia
Scotland
Belgium
Wales
Canada
England
Wales
Mozambique
Czech Republic
New Zealand
Czech Republic
USA
Portugal
Denmark
Australia
Germany
USA
Netherlands
Portugal
USA
Belgium
Finland
Croatia
Germany
Ireland
Czech Republic
Brazil
Belgium
Portugal
Serbia
Slovenia
Slovenia
France
France
Italy
Norway
Germany
Faroe Islands
Switzerland
Germany
Italy
England
Australia
England
Australia
Tibet
England
Switzerland
Germany
USA
Hungary
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Italy
Finland
Tunisia
Montenegro
Bulgaria
Germany
Greece
Switzerland
England
Australia
Germany
England
Czech Republic
Finland
Ukraine
England
Netherlands
Ireland
Ireland
Sweden
Malaysia
Belgium
England
USA
France
Cyprus
Germany
Germany
Angola
Germany
USA
Malta
England
Australia
Switzerland
Australia
Norway
Switzerland
Poland
New Zealand
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Romania
Canada
Switzerland
Italy
Finland
England
Norway
Australia
Germany
Malaysia
Italy
Latvia
Czech Republic
Belgium
Turkey
Denmark
Finland
Austria
Greece
Finland
Germany
England
France
Belgium
Australia
Singapore
England
Australia
Croatia
Australia
Sweden
England
Poland
USA
Germany
Hungary
Scotland
New Zealand
England
Scotland
Canada
France
Germany
Turks and Caicos Islands
Italy
Germany
Switzerland
Belarus
Wales
England
Austria
Malaysia
Belgium
Germany
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