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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate><image><title>exploriada.com</title><link>http://en.exploriada.com</link><url>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/logo.jpg</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Matchmaking Festival (Lisdoonvarna, Ireland, 2011-09-02)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/ireland/matchmaking-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/ireland/matchmaking-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Throughout the month of September, the spa town of Lisdoonvarna close to the Burren in Co. Clare, celebrates the world famous Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival with music and lots of fun.
The small spa town of Lisdoonvarna, with a population of around 800 people, has attracted visitors from all over Ireland to its mineral springs, since the 18th century. A long held traditional in this central town on the southern edges of the scenic Burren area, is ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a1e826508175.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeological Festival in Biskupin (Biskupin, Poland, 2011-09-17)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/archaeological-festival-in-biskupin</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/archaeological-festival-in-biskupin</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Every year, usually during third week of September, one of the greatest archaeological, popular-scientific festivals in Europe takes place in Biskupin.
During 9 days within the 24 hectares area of Biskupin reservation different crafts, handiworks and various aspects of spiritual life from prehistory to Middle Ages are presented to public.
Concerts, dances, knights, tournaments, slavonic-viking ship replica sailing, minting coins, bow and oxbow shooting, underwater archaeology, baking bread as well as smelting iron in furnaces - it ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi49ec8b84c247b.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festival Tisse Metisse (Nantes, Cité Internationale des Congres, France, 2011-10-20)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/france/festival-tisse-metisse</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/france/festival-tisse-metisse</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4aa8e5061aac4.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Carnival (Venecia, Italy, 2012-02-04)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/italy/venice-carnival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/italy/venice-carnival</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a9e683f865cb.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese New Year (London, United Kingdom, 2012-02-05)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/chinese-new-year</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/chinese-new-year</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Chinese New Year is the biggest festival of the year in Chinese communities.
As it is based on the lunar and solar calendars, the date varies from late January to mid-February.
2009 is the Year of the Ox. Although Chinese New Year's Day falls on 26 January, the London Chinatown Chinese Association traditionally holds the capital's Chinese New Year celebrations on the first Sunday after Chinese New Year's Day. ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi49ecabd5544ab.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jorvik Viking Festival (York, United Kingdom, 2012-02-11)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/jorvik-viking-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/jorvik-viking-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The year is 1069. The kingdom of England is in the grip of new Norman masters. Their castles rise up all over the countryside, dominating the landscape. The Viking menace from the north is just a distant memory. Or is it...? The disempowered Anglo-Saxon earls of the north have few friends to help them against their hated Norman overlords. But help is at hand from an unexpected quarter. King Sweyn of Denmark has followed in ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi496e3befefd3f.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las Fallas (Valencia, Spain, 2012-03-15)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/spain/las-fallas</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/spain/las-fallas</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Exhuberant and anarchic, Las Fallas is Europe&apos;s wildest spring party, which is a pretty big deal for what is essentially a glorified puppet show. It&apos;s a time when the city is all but taken over by the fallas, which are huge sculptures of papier-mache on wood, built by teams of local artists. Each neighbourhood sponsors its own falla, and when the town wakes after the planta (overnight placement of the fallas) on the morning of ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a13e22c9c0ff.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[International Music Festival (Lucerne, Switzerland, 2012-03-24)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/switzerland/international-music-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/switzerland/international-music-festival</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:34:32 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Lucerne's reputation as one of the leading international organizers of classical and contemporary music festivals is well established, as host of the renowed Lucerne International Festival of Music. ...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beltane Fire Festival (Edinburgh, Calton Hill, United Kingdom, 2012-04-30)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/beltane-fire-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/beltane-fire-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Edinburgh's Beltane festival originates in the Scottish and Irish Gaelic pre-Christian festival of the same name.
The name itself is thought to have derived from a Gaelic-Celtic word meaning 'bright/sacred fire'. It was held to mark and celebrate the blossoming of spring, and coincided with the ancient pastoral event of moving livestock to their summer grazing. It did not occur on any fixed solar date (the tradition of solstices and equinoxes is later in origin) but ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi49ec68edd8fe3.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[VI International Festival in Podlasie and Polesie (Bielsk Podlaski, Poland, 2012-05-28)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/vi-international-festival-in-podlasie-and-polesie</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/vi-international-festival-in-podlasie-and-polesie</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a13e49995d76.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kielecki Festiwal Tańca (Kielce, Poland, 2012-06-28)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/kielecki-festiwal-tanca</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/kielecki-festiwal-tanca</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:24:34 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4dfb73b0e5727.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[International Sobieski Knights Tournament (Gniew, Poland, 2012-06-30)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/international-sobieski-knights-tournament</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/international-sobieski-knights-tournament</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarry Hill Festival (Leeds, Quarry Hill, United Kingdom, 2012-07-02)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/quarry-hill-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/quarry-hill-festival</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:31:04 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Quarry Hill Festival is a day of free performances, workshops, classes and behind-the-scenes insights from some of Leeds’ leading cultural organisations all based on and around the Quarry Hill area of the city.

For one day only we take you behind the scenes of our venues and workshops and invite you to take part in a whole range of activities. Places for some events are limited so we suggest you book on-line in advance, using the ...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Le Off Avignon Theatre Festival (Avignon, France, 2012-07-07)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/france/le-off-avignon-theatre-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/france/le-off-avignon-theatre-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:42:44 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bazaar, party, fair, a theatre supermarket, the Festival Off is all that and more. During the 4 weeks of the festival, the living arts take over the city, theatres flourish in the bosom of the city, sometimes in some improbable locations, and the number of shows offered may seem inordinate to the simple spectator. No prior selection takes place; from inexperienced amateurs to the most famous of actors, all converge on Avignon to present their ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4e0738611b28e.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[FETA International Street & Open-Air Theatres Festival (Gdansk, Poland, 2012-07-12)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/feta-international-street-open-air-theatres-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/feta-international-street-open-air-theatres-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For four days Gdańsk becomes a city of theatre?Youth Creative Club ?Plama? has the main aim of producing International Street and Open-Air Theatres Festival FETA?loved by citizens and tourist alike. The festival has continued to develop and become more strong, attracting theatre and actors from around the world. The festival promotes art and culture of the whole world, educating and entertaining people, bringing laughter, tears, knowledge and the love of art.

The FETA program includes many ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi49ec30fe20e0f.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle of Grunwald - Reconstruction (Tannenberg, Poland, 2012-07-14)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/battle-of-grunwald-reconstruction</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/battle-of-grunwald-reconstruction</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[People in Poland celebrate the historical reconstruction of the Grunwald Battle every year at the second weekend in July. It attracts about 70 thousands of visitors from far and near.
The Battle of Grunwald took place on 15 July 1410 with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led by the king Jogaila (Władysław II Jagiełło), ranged against the Knights of the Teutonic Order, led by the Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen.
A trip ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi495cef4321439.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozart Festival (Salzburg, Austria, 2012-07-20)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/austria/mozart-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/austria/mozart-festival</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:23:09 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[During Salzburg's five weeks of festival, which spans late July and August, city evening take on a truly elegant air. In four days you can visit museums, follow the Mozart trail, enjoy the music, soak up the atmosphere, and even have time to take a tour into the surrounding lakes and mountains. ...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer Art &amp; Craft Fair (Dobre Miasto, Poland, 2012-07-20)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/summer-art-craft-fair</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/summer-art-craft-fair</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:29:54 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edinburgh International Festival (Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2012-08-09)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/edinburgh-international-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/edinburgh-international-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Edinburgh International Festival presents a rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and dance in six major theatres and concert halls and a number of smaller venues, over a three-week period in late summer each year.
In addition to mounting the annual three week programme of events, the Festival has a year-round programme of education and outreach work, aimed at all ages from primary school pupils to adults.
The Festival began in 1947, with the aim ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi49ecad6a2185e.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notting Hill Carnival (London, United Kingdom, 2012-08-28)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/notting-hill-carnival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/united-kingdom/notting-hill-carnival</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Second only to Rio de Janeiro, Notting Hill Carnival is one of the world\'s greatest street festivals. A world-class example of diversity that celebrates ethnic diversity and freedom through music, movement and masquerade making this uniquely cosmopolitan part of London come alive in a vibrant kaleidoscope of colour, sound and aroma.

More than a million visitors can be expected to watch the thousands of artists perform over the two-day August bank holiday. The weekend is the ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi49f6e9e840825.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic Regatta (Venice, Italy, 2012-09-02)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/italy/historic-regatta</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/italy/historic-regatta</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Historical Regatta is one of the most spectacular, colourful, pictoresque and moving events of Venetian life
Every year, the first Sunday of September, the Historical Regatta comes back in Venice, the most traditional among the venetian events, which took place for the first time the 10th of January 1315 under the rule of the doge Giovanni Soranzo.
The sumptuous event, organized in the Serenissima times to celebrate the military victories or to honour the foreign dignitaries, ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi49f4696b64883.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bavaria's National Beer Festival (Munich, Theresienwiese, Germany, 2012-09-22)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/germany/bavarias-national-beer-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/germany/bavarias-national-beer-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Many special trains of the German Federal Railway bring in visitors from Germany's main towns and also from abroad.  Thousands of coaches run special trips to the 'Wies`n', to give the Oktoberfest in Munich its traditional popular name.
When the Oktoberfest opens in Munich, all the brewers and publicans march in procession through the town accompanied by gaily decked carts and brewers' drays, drawn by teams of hefty dray horses.
No motorised vehicles are tolerated in ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a13ec70540ff.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galway Oyster Festival (Galway, Ireland, 2012-09-28)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/ireland/galway-oyster-festival</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/ireland/galway-oyster-festival</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:37:08 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Oysters and Guiness are the staple diet of guests at the Galway Oyster Festival, which hits this charming Irish city at the end of every September. ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4b473525533eb.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days of Polish Mountaineering Club (Bukowina Tatrzańska, Poland, 2012-11-09)]]></title><guid>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/days-of-polish-mountaineering-club</guid><link>http://en.exploriada.com/festival/europe/poland/days-of-polish-mountaineering-club</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:38:37 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description></item></channel></rss>
