In December, Cologne offers seven romantic Christmas Markets in the city centre:
The Christmas Market at Cologne Cathedral, arts and crafts, food and drinks.
Home of the gnomes, large number of handcraft stalls, still produced in the traditional way.
The oldest Christmas market, the Angels Market, designed houses and unique starry sky.
The Fairytale Christmas market, at Rudolfplatz, the brother’s Grimm tales.
Floating Christmas Market with over forty stalls.
The Christmas market at Stadtgarten.
The new maritime Christmas Market, on the Rhine with about 80 stalls in white pagoda tents like ship sails, high-quality products and art craft, dishes and drinks from all over the world.

The next Fair will run from Friday 18th to Monday 21st March 2011 at the Porte de Versailles. Focus on Nordic literature (forty authors from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden will be on hand to meet you) and four other main themes: crime fiction and thriller, Buenos Aires World Book Capital 2011, France’s overseas territories, serial readers.

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Founded in 1951, the Berlin International Film Festival, is one of the world’s leading film festivals. The 61st Festival will be held from 10 to 20 February 2011, the jury will be presided by Isabella Rossellini. On February 10 the festival is officially opened with True Grit by Joel and Ethan Coen. The Retrospective will honour Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, the festival will feature three 3D movies this year (Wim Wender’s 3D dance film about choreographer Pina Bausch, Les contes de la nuit (Tales Of The Night) by Michel  Ocelot and Cave Of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog), the debuts of five films, actor Ralph Fiennes’ debut as director in Shakespeare tragedy “Coriolanus”…

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Saint Patrick’s Day is on the 17th of March, a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora, especially in Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and others. Saint Patrick was the most famous missionary to Ireland, he was born in Roman Britain in the 4th century, by the seventh century he had come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.

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The Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent cinema festival, takes place annually in Park City, Utah, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as the Sundance Resort, in the United States. In 2011, 20 – 30 Jan.
The resort is named after the role Robert Redford played in the 1969 film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The resort of Sundance is not to be confused with the town of Sundance, Wyoming, the location from where the Sundance Kid received his name…

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The Chinese New Year gets determined by the chinese new year calendar and therefore it is sometimes called the Lunar New Year. In 2011, the Chinese Lunar Year Festival would start from 3rd of February. The festival traditionally begins on the first day and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with significant Chinese populations, such as Mainland China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, and also in Chinatowns elsewhere.

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The European Capitals of Culture in 2011 are Estonia’s main city Tallinn and Turku in Finland. A host of cultural activities will be happening in Tallinn every day, including a Bobby McFerri jazz concert, the Monte Carlo Ballet, painting and photo exhibitions, the first world championship in fire sculpture and youth fashion week. Among key events during the year in Turku is a performance by Rajaton a cappella group, “Bridge of Sounds” concerts, Finnish-Japanese modern dance evening. There will also be Logomo exhibitions and various opera and jazz performances.

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The offcial date for Venice Carnival 2011 is from Saturday 26th February to Mardi Gras (8th March), with a prologue in the preceding weekend, 19th-20th February. The event will have as the leitmotifs the eighteen hundreds and their Venetian dimensions, tribute to Unification of Italy and to women  opening and closing the event with a boat parade  (the 150 years since the Unification of Italy and the coincidence of Mardi Gras with March 8th, the Women’s Day).

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Our Lady appeared to Saint Juan Diego in Decembre 12, 1531, she asked him to go to the Bishop and request him to build a church for her on the barren hill of Tepeyac that is now part of Mexico City. According to tradition the image appeared miraculously on the cloak of Juan Diego. On this day people from all parts of Mexico make their way to Mexico’s chief religious center at the Basilica of the Virgen. Over 12 million faithful visit the Basilica every year, making it the second most visited church in the world, after St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.Today, there are two churches at the top of Mount Tepeyac, the new Basilica contains the original cloak of Juan Diego.

Kyoto is well known for its traditional festivals which have been held for over 1000 years and are a major tourist attraction. The first is the Aoi Matsuri on May 15. Two months later (July 1 to 31) is the Gion Matsuri known as one of the 3 great festivals of Japan, culminating in a massive parade on July 17. Kyoto marks the Bon Festival with the Gozan Okuribi, lighting fires on mountains to guide the spirits home (August 16). The October 22 Jidai Matsuri, Festival of the Ages, celebrates Kyoto’s illustrious past.

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