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Medieval festivals in August 2027

14 medieval festivals, markets and reenactments across Europe in August 2027, in date order, with cities and what each one is known for. Expected dates say so.

August is the month of the long week rather than the weekend, and of booking that should have happened in winter. It opens at Wolin, where the Festival of Slavs and Vikings camps two thousand reenactors in a rebuilt early-medieval port and fights a battle every day; Saturday is the crush. Visby Medieval Week takes week 32, Sunday to Sunday, and the ferry to Gotland is the bottleneck. Over the English bank holiday England’s Medieval Festival jousts in a private park in the Ashdown Forest, no longer at Herstmonceux, with camping folded into the weekend ticket and little public transport. And on the last Friday and Saturday Horsens Medieval Festival closes the month for free inside a former Danish prison.

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April 2026

  • Guédelon Castle (living medieval construction site) in Treigny Stéphane D · CC BY-SA 2.0
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    Living History & Museums Castle Events

    Guédelon Castle (living medieval construction site)

    Treigny, France

    Guédelon is a 13th-century castle being built from scratch in a Burgundy forest quarry using only the tools, materials and techniques of the 1230s, open to visitors from spring to autumn since the first stone was laid in 1997. Around forty masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, tilers, rope-makers and carters work in front of the public, and the site draws roughly 300,000 visitors a season.

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October 2026

  • Middelaldercentret (The Medieval Centre), Nykøbing Falster in Nykøbing Falster Al Bundy at da.wikipedia · CC BY 3.0
    Jousting & Tournaments Living History & Museums

    Middelaldercentret (The Medieval Centre), Nykøbing Falster

    Nykøbing Falster, Denmark

    Middelaldercentret is an experimental living-history museum on the Guldborgsund opposite Nykøbing Falster, where a reconstructed Danish market town of around the year 1400, Sundkøbing, is populated by costumed staff who stay in character all day. Its season runs from early May to late September with daily trebuchet firing, jousting and craft demonstrations, plus an autumn-holiday week in October and a Christmas market.

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May 2027

  • Cēsis Castle Medieval Days (formerly Cēsis Medieval Festival) in Cēsis CesisCastle · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Medieval Markets & Fairs Living History & Museums +1

    Cēsis Castle Medieval Days (formerly Cēsis Medieval Festival)

    Cēsis, Latvia

    Cēsis Castle, the Livonian Order's mightiest fortress and Latvia's best-preserved castle ruin, runs a costumed 'medieval season' from May to September with craft days in the castle garden, a Hanseatic market during the July city festival and period-dressed castle folk on summer weekends. A standalone annual Cēsis Medieval Festival, the successor of the Baltic Medieval Festival first held here in 2001, could not be verified as still running in 2026, so this listing is marked unverified.

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July 2027

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    Jousting & Tournaments Castle Events

    Tournoi de Chevalerie de Carcassonne (Knights' Tournament and Falconry Show)

    Carcassonne, France

    Every summer the lices between the double walls of the Cité de Carcassonne host a daily knights' tournament, a 45-minute show of mounted combat in armour, billed in 2026 as 'Tournois de chevalerie et spectacle de fauconnerie' after a falconry display was added. The 2026 season runs from 12 July to 27 August with three performances a day, every day except Saturday.

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    Family
  • Medieval Markets & Fairs Castle Events +1

    MPS Bückeburg (Mittelalterlich Phantasie Spectaculum)

    Bückeburg, Germany

    The Mittelalterlich Phantasie Spectaculum is Germany's touring medieval-fantasy market, on the road every summer since 1994, and its Bückeburg stop in the grounds of Schloss Bückeburg is its flagship: two weekends at the turn of July and August with a large market, knights' tournaments, encampments, bands and street performers. It is medieval in its market, camp and tournament and fantasy by declaration, having taken the word into its name in 2008, and it is held beside a palace whose moated predecessor is documented in 1304.

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    Family
  • St. Dominic's Fair (Jarmark św. Dominika) in Gdańsk Brosen · CC BY 2.5
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    Medieval Markets & Fairs Historic City Celebrations

    St. Dominic's Fair (Jarmark św. Dominika)

    Gdańsk, Poland

    St. Dominic's Fair is a three-week street fair in the centre of Gdańsk that traces its origins to a papal privilege of 1260, making it one of the oldest trading fairs in Europe. Around 700 stalls of craftspeople, antique dealers, artists and food sellers fill the Main Town from late July to mid-August, with some 200 concerts and events alongside.

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    Family
  • Viagem Medieval em Terra de Santa Maria in Santa Maria da Feira Feira Viva · CC BY-SA 4.0
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    Medieval Markets & Fairs Living History & Museums +1

    Viagem Medieval em Terra de Santa Maria

    Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal

    Viagem Medieval is a 12-day historical recreation that turns the historic centre and castle of Santa Maria da Feira into a themed medieval town each summer, with processions, theatre, tournaments, markets and camps. Running since 1997, it is Portugal's largest medieval event.

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    Reenactment & Battles Living History & Museums +1

    Festival of Slavs and Vikings, Wolin

    Wolin, Poland

    The Festival of Slavs and Vikings on Ostrów island at Wolin is one of Europe's largest early-medieval gatherings, with around 2,000 re-enactors from some 30 countries camping in a reconstructed 9th–11th-century port settlement. Four days of crafts, battles with hundreds of warriors, boat regattas, rituals and music recall the town that medieval chroniclers knew as Jomsborg or Vineta.

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    Family
  • Jousting & Tournaments Living History & Museums +1

    The Loxwood Joust

    Loxwood, England

    The Loxwood Joust is a ticketed medieval festival staged over three weekends in August on Loxwood Meadow in West Sussex, billed as the 'Kingdom of Loxwood'. Alongside daily jousting it mixes living-history camps, falconry, blacksmithing, an executioner's show, archery, music and theatrical spectacle, with weekend camping and evening entertainment.

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August 2027

  • ConQuest of Mythodea in Brokeloh S. Bollmann · Attribution
    Medieval Markets & Fairs Fantasy Fairs & Spectacles

    ConQuest of Mythodea

    Brokeloh, Germany

    ConQuest of Mythodea is the world's largest live-action role-playing game: for five days each August up to 10,000 costumed participants build camps, markets and armies on the Rittergut Brokeloh estate and fight over a fictional continent. It is a game rather than a spectator festival, with medieval-style camps, crafts and markets as its backbone and a wholly invented fantasy world on top; non-players can enter only as day visitors, 200 a day and in medieval dress.

    – 2027
  • Castlefest in Lisse -JvL- · CC BY 2.0
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    Medieval Markets & Fairs Music, Feasts & Theatre +1

    Castlefest

    Lisse, Netherlands

    Castlefest is a four-day fantasy festival in the park of Kasteel Keukenhof in Lisse, built on a large market of craftspeople and traders, pagan-folk and medieval-rock bands, workshops and a Saturday-night Wickerman burning. The medieval side is the crafts, the music and the camp-style catering; the fantasy layer is the costumes, the writers and the pagan ritual, and the 17th-century castle is a country house rather than a medieval fortress.

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    Family
  • Visby Medieval Week in Visby Statens Arkiver - Danish State Archives · CC BY-SA 2.0
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    Medieval Markets & Fairs Jousting & Tournaments +1

    Visby Medieval Week

    Visby, Sweden

    Medeltidsveckan fills the walled Hanseatic town of Visby on Gotland with eight days of medieval markets, jousting, concerts, lectures and camps every August. Founded in 1984, it is Scandinavia's largest medieval festival and draws around 40,000 visitors, many of them in costume.

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    Family
  • Medieval Markets & Fairs Jousting & Tournaments +1

    Horsens Medieval Festival

    Horsens, Denmark

    Horsens Middelalderfestival turns FÆNGSLET, the town's former state prison, into a medieval town for two days at the end of August, with knights, craftsmen, musicians, a market and hundreds of costumed participants. Run by the municipality since 1995 and free to enter, it calls itself northern Europe's largest medieval festival and draws around 100,000 visitors.

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  • Medieval Markets & Fairs Jousting & Tournaments +1

    England's Medieval Festival

    Nutley, England

    England's Medieval Festival is a three-day jousting, living-history and market festival over the August bank holiday weekend, with camping, evening entertainment and a large 'Kid's Kingdom'. Founded in 1993 at Herstmonceux Castle, it moved in 2023 to The King's Grove at Pippingford Park in the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex.

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    Family

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