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Markets, jousts, battle reenactments, Viking weeks and Christmas markets, with dates checked against the organiser, and guides to the towns that host them.

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Guédelon Castle (living medieval construction site) in Treigny Stéphane D · CC BY-SA 2.0
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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.

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Middelaldercentret (The Medieval Centre), Nykøbing Falster in Nykøbing Falster Al Bundy at da.wikipedia · CC BY 3.0
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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.

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Tournoi de Chevalerie de Carcassonne (Knights' Tournament and Falconry Show) in Carcassonne Chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0
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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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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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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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Jornadas Medievales de Ávila (Mercado de las Tres Culturas)

Ávila, Spain

Ávila's Jornadas Medievales turn the walled UNESCO city into the 'Market of the Three Cultures' for four days on the first weekend of September, with more than 300 stalls, around 150 free shows, nine mounted tournaments and a grand parade recalling the town's Christian, Jewish and Muslim past. Held since 1997 and declared a Festival of National Tourist Interest, it drew about 130,000 visitors in 2025.

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Not scraped, not copied from last year's poster. When a festival announces, we update the page and show the date we checked. When one is cancelled, we say that too.

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The medieval centre of Avignon, France OT Avignon · CC BY-SA 4.0

Avignon

France

From 1309 to 1377 the popes ruled the Latin Church from Avignon, not Rome, and from 1378 the city held one of the two rival popes of the Great Schism. The Palais des Papes they built is the largest Gothic palace in Europe, and the 4.3 km of wall the popes threw around the town in 1355–70 still runs the whole way round it.

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The medieval centre of Bruges, Belgium Zairon · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bruges

Belgium

For roughly two centuries Bruges was the commercial capital of north-west Europe: English wool arrived here, left as Flemish cloth, and the Burgundian dukes kept their court in the middle of it. The sea channel that made the town rich silted up, the money moved to Antwerp, and Bruges became too poor to rebuild itself — which is the real reason so much of it is still standing.

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The medieval centre of Carcassonne, France Chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Carcassonne

France

Town in the Aude in south-west France whose hilltop Cité is Europe's largest surviving double-walled fortified town: about 3 km of ramparts, 52 towers, a castle and a basilica, restored by Viollet-le-Duc and UNESCO-listed since 1997.

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The medieval centre of Gdańsk, Poland Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0

Gdańsk

Poland

Baltic port at the mouth of the Vistula, a Hanseatic city under the Teutonic Knights and later the richest port of the Polish Crown. Its reconstructed Main Town holds St Mary's basilica, Artus Court and the 1444 port crane.

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