Events

The Uefa Champions League is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in European football. The final of the 2011 tournament was the most-watched UEFA Champions League final to date, as well as the most watched annual sporting event worldwide that year, drawing 178.7 million television viewers.

The Canadian Grand Prix draws crowds of up to 300,000 people, and is one of the sport's best-attended events.

The annual US Open Golf Tournament, the second of four major golf championships is staged at a variety of courses across the country.

This year both the men's and women's championships are scheduled to be played at the No 2 course of the Pinehurst Resort, in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

The British Grand Prix is held at the Silverstone Circuit near the village of Silverstone in Northamptonshire. The British and Italian Grands Prix are the oldest continuously staged Formula One World Championship Grands Prix. It was designated the European Grand Prix five times between 1950 and 1977, when this title was an honorary designation given each year to one Grand Prix race in Europe.

The Montreux Jazz Festival is far more than the evocative name of one of the world’s major cultural events. Since its beginnings in 1967, the Festival has developed its palette of activities considerably. Today the Festival is involved in an array of endeavors, including a Foundation encouraging the next generation of musicians, the Montreux Jazz Cafés, and Montreux Sounds, the largest audiovisual concert archives in the world.

The festival of San Fermín in the city of Pamplona is a deeply rooted celebration held annually for a week in July.

It starts at midday on the 6th of July, when the opening of the party is marked by setting off the pyrotechnic chupinazo (rocket), and ends at midnight on the 14th of July, with the singing of the Pobre de Mí. While its most famous event is the the running of the bulls (encierro), which happens at 8:00 am from the 7th to the 14th of July, the week long celebration involves many other traditional and folkloric events.

Henley Royal Regatta is undoubtedly the best known regatta in the world and is both one of the highlights of the summer sporting calendar and the social season. 

It attracts thousands of visitors over a 5 day period and spectators will be thrilled by over 200 races of an international standard, including Olympians and crews new to the event.

The Cheltenham Music Festival is one of the oldest music festivals in Britain, held annually in Cheltenham in June/July since 1945.

With over 70 concerts to choose from, spanning over 800 years of classical music history, there is something here for even the most demanding connoisseurs of classical music. The broad-based artistic programme encompasses orchestral concerts, chamber music, recitals, and opera, with a strong emphasis on commissioning new music.

The German Grand Prix has been held most years since 1926. The race has had a remarkably stable history for one of the older Grands Prix, having been held at just three different venues throughout its life; the Nürburgring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hockenheimring in Baden-Württemberg and on odd occasion AVUS near Berlin.

Since 2007 the German Grand Prix has alternated between two venues: the Nürburgring and the Hockenheimring. This year the Formula One Grand Prix will be held at the Hockenheimring.

Hampton Court Flower Show draws crowds of over 160,000 visitors in the course of a week and is the largest of the RHS flower shows. There will be as many as 50 display gardens.

The UK's best nurseries will fill the floral marquees which will be erected on the north and south sides of the Long Water in Hampton Court Park.