Events

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.

The Festival of Speed is the largest motoring garden party in the world – a unique summer weekend that brings together an impossibly heady mix of cars, stars and motor sport ‘royalty’ to create the largest car culture event in the world. Held in the immaculate grounds of Goodwood House, this annual Hillclimb event is a true celebration of motor sport and all things automotive.

The world's greatest classical music festival, the BBC Proms have been going for well over a hundred years. The first Proms concert took place on 10 August 1895, organised by impresario Robert Newman, with the avowed intent of reaching a wider audience by offering popular programmes in an informal setting. In 1896 Newman offered Henry Wood conductorship of the first Proms season.

The only major men's golf championship held outside the USA provides a thrilling spectacle over a rota of nine different courses. This year the Championship takes place at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake; it was last played there in 2006 after an absence of 39 years.

The Claret Jug, or to use its proper name, The Golf Champion Trophy, is presented to each year’s winner of The Open Championship.

The opening match of the five-match Investec Series between England and India in 2020 hosted at Trent Bridge.

Trent Bridge is considered to be one of the best grounds in the world to watch cricket. Trent Bridge's serene pavilion, kept within the architectural parameters of its 1889 foundation, is thought of as one of the most renowned trademarks of cricket. Recent developments include the £7.2 million Radcliffe Road Cricket Centre, opened in 1998 and the state of the art £1.9 million Fox Road stand, which has received awards for its architectural excellence.