Medieval festivals in June 2027

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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.

On now until 1 Nov

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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.

On now until 20 Sep

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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.

Expected May–Sep 2027

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Lajkonik Procession

Kraków, Poland

Once a year a bearded rider in Tatar dress on a white hobby-horse — the Lajkonik, or Konik Zwierzyniecki — parades across Kraków with a band and a costumed retinue, from Zwierzyniec to the Main Market Square, tapping bystanders with his mace for luck. The pageant is held on the octave of Corpus Christi, the Thursday eight days after Corpus Christi, and is organised by the Museum of Kraków; the 2026 edition was on 11 June and 3 June 2027 is expected.

Expected Jun 2027

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Tallinn Old Town Days (Tallinna Vanalinna Päevad)

Tallinn, Estonia

Tallinn Old Town Days is the Estonian capital's annual early-summer city festival, held since 1982, when around 300 mostly free concerts, performances, tours, workshops and open-door visits fill the streets, courtyards and towers of the UNESCO-listed medieval Old Town. The 2026 edition ran from 5 to 7 June with theatre and the performing arts as its theme.

Expected Jun 2027

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Les Médiévales de Provins

Provins, France

Les Médiévales de Provins turn the UNESCO-listed upper town into a two-day medieval fair each June, with a market of around 320 stalls, tournaments, a Saturday-night ball and concert and a Sunday parade of about 700 costumed participants. Held since 1984, it attracted 120,000 visitors in 2025, the largest attendance of any medieval festival in France.

Expected Jun 2027

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Královské stříbření Kutné Hory (Royal Silvering of Kutná Hora)

Kutná Hora, Czechia

The Royal Silvering of Kutná Hora recreates a visit by King Wenceslas IV and his court to the silver-mining town around the year 1400, with a costumed procession from the Italian Court to St Barbara's Cathedral, mounted tournaments, period music, crafts and a torchlit evening programme in the park below the royal mint. Held on a weekend in late June since 1992, it reached its 32nd edition on 20–21 June 2026.

Expected Jun 2027

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Landshuter Hochzeit 1475

Landshut, Germany

Every four years about 2,500 costumed citizens of Landshut restage the 1475 wedding of Duke Georg the Rich and Princess Hedwig of Poland over three and a half weeks of processions, tournaments, camp life and plays. First performed in 1903, it is Europe's largest historical costume festival; the next edition runs 25 June–18 July 2027.

25 Jun–18 Jul 2027

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Ommegang of Brussels

Brussels, Belgium

The Ommegang is Brussels' great historical pageant: more than 1,400 participants in costume, with horses, giants, stilt-walkers, crossbowmen and flag-throwers, process from the Sablon to the Grand-Place on two evenings in early July to recreate the 1549 entry of Emperor Charles V and his son Philip. Its roots go back to a 1348 procession of the crossbowmen's guild; it was revived in 1930 and has been on UNESCO's intangible heritage list since 2019. The 2026 shows were on 1 and 3 July.

Expected Jun–Jul 2027

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