World’s best, most rare and one-off festivals and events
Hundreds of LED lights are housed in three locations across the Niagara Gorge in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
If you’re heading to Russia for this year’s FIFA World Cup, or you’re already at, or going to, the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games here in Australia, lucky you.
You won’t only enjoy a world sporting showcase and the accompanying fan frenzy that goes with it, but you’ll have the chance to explore great host cities too: if you’re going to Russia, there’s not just Moscow and St Petersburg, but the fortified Kremlin at Kazan, old trading town Nizhny Novgorod, and Volgograd with its mighty World War II monuments.
The World Cup runs from June 14 to July 15 but, while it’s likely too late to get organised now, there are plenty more recurring events that provide a marvellous hook on which to hang an entire holiday.
Sporting events are an obvious enticement, but you’ll have to wait four more years for the next World Cup in Qatar and the next Winter Olympics in Beijing. You’ve also just missed the once-in-a-decade Sculpture Project in Munster, Germany, an invigorating showcase of controversial public sculpture, which is next held in 2027.
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