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A YEAR OF EUROTRIPPING


Goat Tossing

Fiesta de San Vicente Mártir
Manganeses de la Polvorosa, Spain
22nd January


Rooster Run

Correr el Gallo
Guarrate, Spain
last Sunday in January


Wenches' Feast Day (Weiberfastnacht) Karneval

The Rhineland / Black Forest, Germany
late February / early March


Arse Blowing

La Mascarade des Soufflaculs
Nontron, France
usually the first Sunday in April


St. George's Day

La Diada de Sant Jordi
Barcelona, Spain
23rd April


Fire Dancing

Anastenariá
Ayia Eleni and Langadas, Greece
21st May


Phallus Festival

Festa de São Gonçalo
Amarante, Portugal
first weekend in June


St. George vs. the Dragon

Le Combat dit Lumeçon
Mons, Belgium
Trinity Sunday (usually in June)

Baby Jumping

La Fiesta del Colacho
Castrillo de Murcia, Spain
Corpus Christi weekend (usually June)


Oil Wrestling

Edirne, Turkey
usually the last weekend in June


Rigor Mortis Procession

Coffin Festival
San Xosé de Ribarteme, Spain
29th July


Handling the Virgin's Snakes

Markópoulo, Kefaloniá, Greece
on and around 15th August


Matchmaking Festival

Lisdoonvarna, Ireland
September / October


Miracle of the Blood

Naples, Italy
19th September


Cowfighting

Le Combat des Reines
Martigny, Switzerland
usually early October


Sinterklaas and 'Black Pete'

Amsterdam / rest of the Netherlands
mid-November to 5th December

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