Bayern Tickets

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Bayern
Bayern (also called Bavaria) is the largest and oldest state in the Federal Republic of Germany. The way the Bavarians see themselves and their own state is the result of more than 1,000 years of history.

This historical heritage is still very much alive today. The face of Bavaria is unmistakable and at the same time inextricably bound up in German and European culture and history.

In the last few decades Bavaria has become an extremely modern economic location. With major international companies, strong medium-sized firms, and future-oriented research, Bavaria is now in the forefront of technical and economic progress.

Traditions
Tradition is very important in Bavaria. So is the future. The people in Bavaria know that they are living in one of Europe's oldest cultural landscapes with a history stretching back over more than fifteen centuries and at the same time in one of the most modern states of Europe. In Bavaria tradition and the future go hand in hand.

The Festivals
Festivals are special landmarks in the varied cultural scene in Bayern and attract visitors from all parts of the world every year. Foremost among these is the famous Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, a mecca for opera fans, which repeatedly makes theatrical history with revolutionary productions.

Bavarian State Opera
The Bavarian State Opera in Munich, one of the world's most famous opera houses, also produces a major event every summer with its Opera Festival. The Mozart Festival in Wurzburg, the Bad Kissingen Summer Festival, the European Weeks in Passau, the Bach Week in Ansbach, and the International Organ Week in Nuremberg are further highlights in the international calendar of festivals.

About thirty theatres and opera houses with their own ensembles, together with a large number of amateur dramatic groups and open-air festivals provide a wide and varied range of performances of plays and musical works in Bavaria.

Around five million people attend the approximately 14,000 performances in the state every year. Lovers of classical music are well catered for with some of the leading orchestras in the world: the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian State Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation.

Landshut Wedding
The Landshut Wedding is the largest historical celebration in Germany. Every four years about 2,000 inhabitants of Landshut don mediaeval costumes and re-enact the magnificent wedding of George the Wealthy, Duke of Bavaria and a Polish princess in the year 1475.

The celebration involves lavish preparations and great attention to details; everything must be historically accurate here, down to the long hair of the male actors.

The Munich Beer Festival
Every year the Oktoberfest, the Munich Beer Festival, attracts more than six million visitors from every continent. This popular celebration, the oldest and most famous one in the world, has taken place since 1810 and is rightly considered a symbol of genuine Bavarian hospitality.

At the Wies'n, as the Beer festival is known in the Munich vernacular, comfortable beer tents and Bavarian specialities create a relaxed atmosphere. A highlight of the Oktoberfest is the traditional parade in Bavarian folk costume, in which about 8,000 people take part, led by the Munchner Kindl (the Child of Munich), the personification of the city's coat of arms.

Sports
Bavaria is a paradise for sports enthusiasts. The varied Bavarian landscape offers a wide range of sporting opportunities catering for every taste. The Bavarian Alps provide excellent conditions for winter sports, particularly for alpine and cross-country skiing and for tobogganing.

Sailing
The wide lakes and rivers are an invitation to sail and surf or to go on rowing or canoeing trips. More than 1,000 dedicated cycle routes with a total length of 8,700 km lead cyclist to the most beautiful corners of Bavaria. But you do not only find popular or leisure-time sport in Bavaria. It is also home to high-performance sport.

Olympic Base
The Olympic Base in Bavaria and its four regional centers provide optimum training facilities and high-quality care for top-class sportsmen and sportswomen.

No fewer than twelve professorships for sports at Bavarian universities are dedicated to further developing modern training methods. Sportsmen and sportswomen from Bavaria are regularly successful at both national and international levels.

Conclusion
Bavaria is a way of life. Cheerful and relaxed, sometimes rather obstinate, but never losing sight of reality. Genuine conviviality and unforced Gemutlichkeit' are among the Bavarians' virtues, as are liberal-mindedness and tolerance.

Live and let live - that is what the much-praised Liberalitas Bavarica' means. Perhaps life in Bavaria is a little less hectic than elsewhere. But the people here have more perseverance and can still distinguish clearly between the important things in life and the really important things.