Europe hums with activity in all seasons. Here is a sampling of events on the docket as of Feb. 6, 2015.Please verify details before setting out.
AUSTRIA VIENNA: Ball Season, upcoming balls include The Vienna Opera Ball, Feb. 12;
Bonbon-Ball, Feb. 13; Johann Strauss Ball, Feb. 14; Ball of Legal Professionals, Feb. 14 and Rudolfina-Redoute Masked Ball, March 16.
VILLACH: Carnival celebrations, Feb. 14.
VIENNA: Masters of Dirt, freestyle motocross show, Feb. 20-22.
INNSBRUCK: ART Innsbruck, international fair for contemporary art and antiques, Feb.
20-23.
VIENNA: Accordion Festival, Feb. 21-March 22.
VIENNA: New Sound Festival, 20 new musical acts on three stages, Ottakringer Brauerei,
March 14.
BELGIUM TOURNAI: Jazz Festival Tournai, through Feb. 7.
ROTTERDAM: Art Rotterdam, art fair, through Feb. 8.
BRUSSELS: Salon du Chocolat, chocolate show, Brussels Expo, through Feb. 8.
SPA: Whisky Live Belgium, Rue Servais 8, through Feb. 8.
BRUSSELS: Affordable Art Fair, Tour & Taxis, through Feb. 9.
BRUSSELS: Anima, The Brussels Animation Film Festival, Flagey, Feb. 13-22.
BINCHE: carnival celebrations, includes Gilles, Feb. 15-17.
SOHIER: Special Beer Weekend, Cercle Saint-Lambert, Feb. 20-22.
MONS: International Love Film Festival, Feb. 20-27.
BRUSSELS: Museum Night Fever, museums open late hours, March 7.
CROATIA RIJEKA: International carnival parade, Feb. 15.
TKON: Skraping, trekking race across sharp rocks of Pasman Island, March 7.
CZECH REPUBLIC PUSTEVNY: Snow Kingdom, through Feb. 8.
PRAGUE: Grand Restaurant Festival, through Feb. 28.
TÁBOR: Beer Fest 2015, Hotel Palcát, Feb. 15-21.
KLINOVEC: Winter Arena 2015, winter music and extreme sports festival, Feb. 20-22.
PRAGUE: Let it Roll, indoor drum and base festival, Expo grounds, Feb. 27.
PRAGUE: St. Matthew’s Fair, Exhibition Grounds, March 1-April 30.
PRAGUE: One World Film Festival, international human rights film festival, March 2-11.
PRAGUE: European Athletics Indoor Championships, O2 Arena, March 5-8.
DENMARK COPENHAGEN: Winter Jazz, performances take place countrywide, through Feb. 22.
COPENHAGEN: Copenhagen Dining Week, Feb. 9-15.
COPENHAGEN: Liquorice Festival, Feb. 21-22.
COPENHAGEN: Jewish Film Festival, Cinemateket, Feb. 25-March 1.
COPENHAGEN: Aalborg Opera Festival, March 6-15.
COPENHAGEN: Chocolate Festival, Carlsberg Tap 1, March 7-8.
COPENHAGEN: Copenhagen Bike Show, Lokomotivværkstedet, March 13-15.
ENGLAND LONDON: Imagine Children’s Festival, Southbank Centre, Feb. 9-22.
CAMBRIDGE: Banff Mountain Film Festival, Lady Mitchell Hall, Feb. 10.
DERBY: CAMRA National Winter Ales Festival, Roundhouse, Feb. 11-14.
LONDON: The Telegraph Outdoor Adventure and Travel Show, ExCeL, Feb. 12-15.
LONDON: The Carol Nash MCN London Motorcycle Show, ExCel, Feb. 13-15.
BLACKPOOL: Showzam, circus and outdoor street arts festival, Feb. 14-18.
YORK: Viking Festival, Jorvik Viking Centre, Feb. 14-22.
LONDON: Maslenitsa Russian Festival in Trafalgar Square, Feb. 15.
LONDON: Flamenco Festival, Sadler’s Wells, Feb. 16-March 1.
OLNEY: International Pancake Day, includes pancake race with residents of Liberal,
Kansas, Feb. 17.
LONDON: Chinese New Year, Feb. 19-22.
LONDON: London Fashion Weekend, Somerset House, Feb. 26-March 1.
BIRMINGHAM: Crufts, world’s largest dog show, The NEC, tickets necessary, March 5-8.
LONDON: London Drinker Beer and Cider Festival, Camden Centre, March 11-13.
FRANCE STRASBOURG: Salon Europeen de la Brocante et de l’Antiquite, flea and antiques market, Parc des Expositions, Feb. 7-8.
COLMAR: Exposition Internationale Feline, cat show, Colmar Expo, Feb. 8.
PARIS: Salon Retro Mobile, vintage auto show, Porte de Versailles, through Feb. 8.
PARIS: Paris Manga & Sci Fi Show, Porte de Versailles, through Feb. 8.
MOREZ: Transjurassienne, cross country ski race, through Feb. 8.
PARIS: Winter sales, through Feb. 10.
GRANVILLE: Carnival celebrations, Feb. 13-17.
NICE: Carnival celebrations, theme for 2015 is “King of Music,” Feb. 13-March 1,
includes flower parades Feb. 14, 18, 21, 25 and 28 and parades of lights Feb. 17 and 24.
MENTON: Lemon Festival, Feb. 14-March 4.
PARIS: Carnavale de Paris, Feb. 15.
NICE: Nice Carnavale Run, 5 and 10 km runs with many costumed participants, Feb. 15.
VILLEFRANCHE SUR MER: Naval flower battles, Porte de la Sante, Feb. 16.
MANDELIEU-LA NAPOULE: Mimosa Festival, Feb. 18-25.
PARIS: International Agricultural Show, Porte de Versailles, Feb. 21-March 1.
PARIS: Half Marathon, March 8.
PARIS: Vertical Race at the Eiffel Tower, March 20.
GERMANY BREMEN: Samba Carnival, through Feb. 7.
BERLIN: Country Music Meeting, Fontane Haus, through Feb. 8.
DORTMUND: Jagd und Hunt, hunting expo, Messe, through Feb. 8.
BREMEN: Classic motor show, vintage car exhibition, ÖVB-Arena, through Feb. 8.
BERLIN: Berlinale, international film festival, through Feb. 15.
COLOGNE: Harry Potter Exhibition, Odysseum, through March 1.
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN: Pond Hockey Cup, Feb. 7-8.
SCHWAEBISCH HALL: Hallia Venezia, Venetian style carnival celebration, Feb. 8.
MUNICH:IMOT Motorcycle Exposition, MOC, Feb. 13-15.
BOCHUM: Historical Indoor Markets, Jahrhunderthalle, Feb. 14-15, 21-22, and Feb.
28-March 1.
AACHEN: Rose Monday Parade, Feb. 16.
COLOGNE: Rose Monday Parade, Feb. 16.
MAINZ: Rose Monday Parade, Feb. 16.
MUNICH: Dance of the market women, Vikualienmarkt, Feb. 17.
KARLSRUHE: RendezVino, wine fair, Messe, Feb. 19-22.
FRANKFURT: Winterworld, techno festival, Messe, Feb. 22.
HEIDELBERG: Banff Mountain Film Festival, Musik und Singschule, Feb. 22.
ELTVILLE AM RHEIN: Rheingau Gourmet & Wine Festival, Feb. 26-March 11.
MUNICH: Strong Beer Season, parties at Augustiner Lagerkeller, Feb. 26-28, March 5-7,
12-14, 19-21, 26-28.
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN: Audi FIS Ski World Cup, men’s races Feb. 28-March 1; women’s races March 7-8.
BERLIN: ITB Berlin, world’s leading travel fair, March 4-8.
BAD DUERKHEIM: Weinbergnacht, March 6-7.
MUNICH: Braukunst Live, craft beer festival, MVG Museum, March 6-8.
FRANKFURT: Lufthansa Half Marathon, Commerzbank-Arena, March 8.
HUNGARY MOHACS: Buso festivities, folkloric carnival including masked Buso figures, main events
Feb. 14-15.
SIOFOK: Lake Balaton Supermarathon, 195 km run can be split up into various distances,
March 19-22.
IRELAND KILLARNEY: The Gathering, festival of traditional music and dance, INEC, Feb. 18-22.
DOOLIN: Russell Memorial Weekend Festival, traditional music festival, Feb. 26-March 1.
DUBLIN: Alltech International Craft Brews and Food Fair, Convention Centre, Feb.
27-March 1.
LETTERKENNEY: The Race, 260 km endurance event includes kayaking, cycling, mountain and trail running, March 7-8.
DINGLE: Dingle International Film Festival, March 12-15.
DUBLIN: Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, March 19-29.
ITALY ACIREALE: Carnival celebrations, parades on Feb. 8, 12 and 14-17.
VENICE: Carnival celebrations, includes historical parade Feb. 7, flight of the angel
Feb. 8, flight of the eagle Feb. 15, Svolo del Leon Feb. 17.
IVREA: Carnival celebrations, Feb. 8 and 12-18, Battle of Oranges take place Feb.
15-17.
VIAREGGIO: Carnival celebrations, includes grand processions of floats and costumed
participants, Feb. 8, 15, 22 and 28.
FLORENCE: Chocolate Fair, Piazza Santa Maria Novella, through Feb. 15.
MILAN: Food and Wine Festival, Milano Congressi, Feb. 7-9.
VICENZA: Hunting and Fishing fair, fairgrounds, Feb. 7-9.
VERONA: Verona in Love, Feb. 12-15, includes Romeo & Juliet Half Marathon, Feb. 15.
TURIN: Automotoretro, auto show, Lingotto Fiere, Feb. 13-15.
GENOVA: Arte Genova, shows modern and contemporary art, Feb. 13-16.
MODENA: Modenantiquaria, antiques expo, ModenaFiere Feb. 13-22.
AGRIGENTO: Almond Blossom Festival, Feb. 17-22.
TREVISO: Treviso Marathon, March 1.
FLORENCE: Taste, food festival, Stazione Leopolda, March 7-9.
LUXEMBOURG DIEKIRCH: Eurocross, long distance race, Feb. 8.
DIEKIRCH: Carnival parade, Feb. 15.
REMICH: Streimaennchen, burning of straw figure signifies end of Carnival, Feb. 18.
CITY: Discovery Zone, film festival, Feb. 26-March 8.
NETHERLANDS ROTTERDAM: Art Rotterdam, through Feb. 8.
THE HAGUE: Cadance, festival for modern dance, through Feb. 15.
AMSTERDAM: Chinese New Year, Feb. 19.
DELFT: De Koninck Delft Blues Festival, Feb. 19-22.
AMSTERDAM: Chocoa Festival, Beurs van Berlage, March 6-8.
NORWAY TROMSO: Sami Week, through Feb. 8.
GEILO: Ice Music Festival, through Feb. 8.
LONGYEARBYEN: Polar Jazz, world’s most northern music festival, through Feb. 8.
KRISTIANSUND: Opera Festival, through Feb. 14.
PORTUGAL FUNCHAL: Carnival celebrations, Feb. 14-17.
PORTO: Fantasporto, international film festival for fantasy and science fiction, Feb.
27-March 7.
SCOTLAND FIFE: Jazz Festival, through Feb. 8.
FORT WILLIAM: Fort William Mountain Festival, Feb. 18-22.
GLASGOW: Glasgow Film Festival, Feb. 18-March 1.
INVERNESS: Fiddler’s Rally, Feb. 21.
SPAIN MADRID: Gastrofestival, through Feb. 15.
PAMPLONA: Point of View, Navarre International Festival of Documentary Cinema, through Feb. 15.
CADIZ: Carnival celebrations, Feb. 12-22; parade Feb. 15.
BARCELONA: Half Marathon, Feb. 15.
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE: Carnival celebrations, Feb. 15.
JEREZ LA FRONTERA: Jerez Festival, highlights flamenco and Spanish dance, Villamarta
Theater, Feb. 20-March 7.
SEVILLE: City Marathon, Feb. 22.
MADRID: Arco Contemporary Art Fair, Feb. 25-March 1.
SANTANDER: International Half Marathon, March 8.
VALENCIA: Las Fallas, March 15-19.
SWEDEN GOTHENBURG: Gothenburg Boat Show, Maessan, through Feb. 8.
STOCKHOLM: Stockholm International Antiques Fair, Feb. 12-15.
STOCKHOLM: Sonar International Festival of Advanced Music, avant-garde electronic dance music, Feb. 13-14.
UMEA: Umefolk, folk festival gathering, Feb. 19-22.
GOTHENBURG: Gothenburg Horse Show, Feb. 25-March 1.
DALARNA: Vasaloppet, world’s longest cross-country ski race, March 8.
SWITZERLAND INTERLAKEN: Ice Magic, skating rinks connected by runways, through Feb. 28.
ST. MORITZ: White Turf, horse races on snow, Feb. 8, 15 and 22.
ZURICH: Swiss Moto, motorcycle exhibition, Messe, Feb. 19-22.
ZURICH: Salsa festival, Kongresshaus, Feb. 20-22.
BASEL: Morgenstreich, Carnival celebrations, Feb. 23.
ST. MORITZ: Engadin Ski Marathon and Half Marathon, March 8.
ST. MORITZ: Music Summit, club music festival, March 13-15.
WALES RHYL: Ten Mile Run, Feb. 22.
CRICKHOWELL: Walking Festival, Feb. 28-March 8.
