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Officially the world’s largest public festival, the
Munich Beer Festival, or Oktoberfest, kicks off
on the third Saturday in September and keeps
pumping day after day for a full-on alcoholsoaked
fortnight. Known locally as the “Wies’n”,
the name of the sprawling park in which it
takes place, the first Oktoberfest was held in
the early nineteenth century to celebrate a
wedding amongst the local royalty. Like all of
the best parties, however, the Oktoberfest has
grown to forget how and why it started, and
is now an unadulterated celebration of beer,
Bavarian life and bacchanalia, attracting seven
million visitors who guzzle their way through
more than four million litres of beer. In case
you’re wondering, even at ten pints a day, it
would take one person 2465 years to polish off
that lot.
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Where?
Munich, Germany
When?
Mid-September to early-October
How Long?
2 weeks
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