
Winterlude 2026 Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa , CanadaEvery February, Canada's Capital comes alive with the Ottawa Winterlude Festival. This magnificent event, held in the Ottawa region over the first three weekends of the month, draws an average
Events, Festivals and Exhibitions

Every February, Canada's Capital comes alive with the Ottawa Winterlude Festival. This magnificent event, held in the Ottawa region over the first three weekends of the month, draws an average

Juxtapose one of the most beautiful cities in the world alongside one of the most colourful and exciting carnivals globally and it has to be a winning formula. Masked costumed

How about a festival on one of the most remote islands in the world? Easter Island’s Fiesta Tapati de Rapa Nui is a celebration in a place that is fascinating to explore between events...

The Chiang Mai Flower Festival is one of the most colourful events in Thailand attracting thousands of floral enthusiasts year on year. It’s not haphazard that Chiang Mai...

The Otaru Snow Light Path Festival is a winter festival held every February in Otaru on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. Otaru Snow Light Path Festival Initiated in 1999,

Referred to as the biggest food fight in Europe, the Battle of the Oranges Italy takes over the town of Ivrea on the days preceding Lent. An estimated 9,000 tonnes

The Sitges Carnival (Carnaval Sitges) sees the Spanish coastal town brought to life with carnival fever as parties and parades take over the streets in the run-up to Lent. While

Yes, we have all heard of Carnival in Rio, but what about a Carnival in the part of Brazil where the influence of African culture is at its strongest? The Bahia Carnival held...

The Rio Carnival Brazil (Rio Carnaval) is the biggest and greatest celebration on Earth. While locals know where to go and what to do; however, as it’s a big Latin American city, the rules are...

The largest winter festival in Western Canada, the Festival du Voyageur, or "Festival of the Traveller" for the non-Francophones out there, is a celebration of all things wintry. Held every February...

Sydney World Pride 2026 is the most colourful LGBTQ+ celebration in the southern hemisphere, and one of the largest in the world. The festival takes place in February and March

It’s that time of the year again that love birds look forward to, many singles dread, and some brave souls try to ignore. The least that could be said about

Situated on the Côte d’Azur in the Alpes Maritimes, the town of Menton could be forgiven for just becoming a playground for the rich, like neighbouring St Tropez and Monaco.

Eerie, identical wax masks, colossal ostrich plume hats, confetti in churches and orange throwing: the medieval Carnaval de Binche (or Binche Carnival) is like no other in the world. In

The World’s greatest party might be in Rio de Janeiro, but the Trinidad Carnival is a mix of centuries of tradition and solid fun, and is probably the most vibrant carnival in the Caribbean...

Paczki Day is a Polish festival celebrated in Detroit and other cities in the United States Midwest on Fat Tuesday. The Polish celebration came to the United States with 19th

Tết, or Tết Nguyên Đán is the most important festival in Vietnam. It marks the advent of Vietnamese New Year, and the arrival of spring. Very much like Chinese New

Tsagaan Sar or Mongolia’s lunar new year is the most important festival for ethnic Mongols and the people of the Arctic where age-old rituals combine with eating local delicacies such

While Chinese New Year isn’t an official holiday in Cambodia, locals love an excuse to celebrate and what better excuse than to mark Chinese Spring Festival?...

Chinese New Year is undoubtedly China’s pre-eminent and most intense festive period characterised by sumptuous family meals, the colour red, paper lanterns and lots...