With July just around the corner the city of Ghent in Belgium is preparing for its annual festival season. A trip across the channel next month will give you the chance to attend 6 different international festivals all in the same city.

Over 1.5 million people were in attendance last year for a diverse line up of events from street puppetry to jazz and jousts. The Medieval centre of Ghent goes all out to make the most of the city’s heritage with all sorts of tournaments and displays of crafts and warfare relics from the Dark Ages..

If you want to keep on going, the ’10 days off’ festival is a techno extravaganza that promises you a party that will last all the way through to the early hours. Some of the very best DJs will be coming from all around the world, as well as the UKs Floating Points and, from across the Atlantic, America’s Moody Mann.

If Techno isn’t your thing there will also be a Jazz Festival and a Boom Town Rock Festival to cater for all tastes. The entire city turns in to one large carnival, with marionettes from the puppet buskers’ festival wandering through Ghent and mixing with the International Street Theatre Festival that will be putting on open-air shows all across the city.

Tickets are available for either individual days or there is a full 10 day pass. And you won’t want to miss the night of the 21st which celebrates the midpoint of the festival with a huge fireworks display.

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