Oktoberfest is a beer festival in Germany.

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Oktoberfest is a beer festival in Germany.

One of the oldest drinks created by man is beer. Its history began with the cultivation of grain crops and has about eleven and a half thousand years. Grain was grown by our ancestors not for the sake of bread, but for the sake of beer. Beer is currently the third most popular beer in the world after water and tea.

   Around 6 million beer connoisseurs visit Munich every year. Many travel companies offer special tours to Oktoberfest. The history of the most famous beer festival in Germany began tritely - on October 12, 1810, the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig, who later became King Ludwig the First of Bavaria, and Princess Teresa of Saxony-Hildburghausskaya got married. To make the common people imbued with the importance of the event, the noble couple decided to arrange a grand feast for their subjects on several pastures outside Munich. About forty thousand Bavarians gathered for the feast.

   Since then, the meadow has received the name Theresienwiese - Theresa's meadow. Ludwig was clearly mad with love for his young wife, as the celebration was repeated on each wedding anniversary. Munich October is already a rather cool month, so in 1872 the opening of the beer festival in Germany was first postponed to the end of September.

   In 1904, it was finally decided to postpone the celebration to the end of September. The modern holiday usually lasts 16 days - it starts on Saturday and ends on the first Sunday of October. If the end falls on October 1 or 2, then the holiday is extended until October 3.

Just like 200 years ago, the Oktoberfest in Munich is held on Theresa Meadow. Since 1819, the holiday has been organized and held by the Munich City Council. By tradition, only six old Bavarian breweries are allowed to participate in it: Augustiner, Löwenbräu, Hofbräu, Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr and Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu. Each marquee represents one of these breweries.

Opening ceremony of the first beer barrel

   About 8,000 people dressed in historical and national costumes walk along the seven-kilometer route from the Bavarian Parliament building to Teresa Meadow.

   Exactly at noon in the oldest beer tent Schottenhammel, the mayor of Munich with the help of a special hammer with the exclamation O'zapft is! - Uncorked!, Drives a tap into the first barrel. The opening of the first barrel officially opens the Oktoberfest in Munich - from that moment on, beer is allowed to be poured and sold to visitors. Inside the huge tents, festival guests actively consume the main drink of the holiday - beer.

   You will not find Guinness or Heineken here - only Bavarian beers exist during the festival. Places in these tents are occupied long before the holiday - real connoisseurs book a place in a tent a year in advance. The rest will have to hope for luck and be patient, as they will have to defend their right to beer and sausage in a huge queue. As soon as all the places at the tables are occupied, the doors are closed, and new visitors can enter only when the old ones begin to leave the tent. Often at 11 am the doors of the tents are already closed. The largest tent can accommodate almost 11,000 visitors.

   For the most popular beer festival in Germany, a special March beer Oktoberfest Märzen or Oktoberfestbier with a strength of 5.8-6.3% is brewed, although the Bavarian light lagers Helles, Lager Hell are also widely represented at the holiday.

   As an appetizer for beer at Oktoberfest, pretzels are popular - huge pretzels with a diameter of 15-25 cm, pork hams, fried chicken, signature Munich sausages, cabbage and potato salads, baked fish and other beer

   festival in Germany- a great opportunity to spend a vacation in the fall. Bavarian weather during the festival is warm and mild. Tourists of any age will be able to enjoy the holiday: kids will enjoy the numerous carousels, the children's train, the Ferris wheel, and adults can tickle their nerves and stomach on the largest mobile roller coaster and other exciting attractions.

   Experienced tourists recommend going to the festival for at least a week, although travel companies offer shorter Oktoberfest tours . However, a week is enough to try all the available variety of drinks and snacks. Any gourmet will find dishes to his liking here: both meat and fish delicacies, as well as all kinds of sweets. Call tel.    068-552-29-29

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