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The biggest festivals in Odense

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Odense is known for being a festival city and there is something going on almost all year round. We start out in early summer with a tasty Rosé Wine Festival and finish with the fantastic Christmas Market during the two first weekends in December. These are the biggest annual festivals.

Festivals in Odense

From flowers to fairy tales, from music to short film documentaries, from the environment to fantastical creatures and magic - our festivals have a broad range and the city centre is buzzing all summer long. Take a look at the 10 biggest events below in chronological order:

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Rosé Wine Festival Odense
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Rosé Wine Festival Odense

Odense's biggest rosé festival
Rosé Festival Odense is Odense's biggest and most pink rosé festival - and you're invited! The festival has existed since 2018 and has every year delivered a fantastic fe...

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Odense Pale Ale Festival
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Odense Pale Ale Festival

Odense Pale Ale Festival (also known as PAF) is a four-day beer festival with hops in the center. During the festival more than 100 different beers will be served, and there will be the opportunity to...

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DYNAMO Circus Festival
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DYNAMO Circus Festival

This is the fourth edition of the International New Circus Festival packed with contemporary circus, music, party, community and unpredictable experiences in a tour de force in wildness, poetry, humou...

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Champagne Festival
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Champagne Festival

"Only the unimaginative cannot find an opportunity to drink champagne" - Oscar Wilde

Friday, June 16 2023, there will be a great opportunity to enjoy champagne. You are invited to an explosion of tas...

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Tinderbox Music Festival in Odense
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Tinderbox Music Festival in Odense

Odense is buzzing with parties and good humour when it's time for the Tinderbox music festival at the end of June. In 2023 you can experience Black Eyed Peas, Dean Lewis, George Ezra, Jada, Lukas Grah...

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H.C. Andersen Festival Play
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H.C. Andersen Festival Play

Every summer the Hans Christian Andersen Festival Plays in Odense perform a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen in the open air museum The Funen Village.

In 2023 the play will be based on the story a...

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Bard Festival at the Iron Age Village
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Bard Festival at the Iron Age Village

Song, sound and the great stories of the past

The Iron Age Village Odin's Odense invites you to attend a wonderful and different festival - A bard festival in a beautiful historical setting.
When our ...

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Spoken Word Festival
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Spoken Word Festival

The Spoken Word Festival | SPOKEN has been an annual event in Odense since 2010. Since 2013, Studenterhus Odense has hosted the festival during 8-10 days in August as part of the Hans Christian Anders...

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Odense Flower Festival
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Odense Flower Festival

Welcome to this year's Flower Festival 

Visit Odense and enjoy all the impressing flower decorations in the city centre. We offer something for everybody - art, culture and entertainment can be enjoyed...

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Hans Christian Andersen Festivals
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Hans Christian Andersen Festivals

Hans Christian Andersen Festivals

Hardly is the Flower Festival over before a new festival starts and brings Odense to a boil.

Hans Christian Andersen Festivals offer fairy tales, imagination, adventure...

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Odense International Film Festival

Odense International Film Festival is a Danish film festival with a long and successful tradition.

Since it's first appearance in 1975 OFF has strived to be the cosiest, most courageous and adventurous...

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Generator Study Start Festival
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Generator Study Start Festival

Generator Festival is Odense's big student start festival, which brings together the city's many young people and students across the city and educational institutions. The two-day festival takes plac...

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Nashville Nights Festival
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Nashville Nights Festival

Nashville Nights International Songwriters Festival
In September, more than 80 Danish and international songwriters and artists will find their way to the center of Denmark to give us all a new and in ...

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Tartelet Festival in Odense
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Tartelet Festival in Odense

We present the annual Tartelet Festival for the 13th year in a row. This is the world's greatest celebration of the delicious, crisp tartelet.

Our guests can expect an fantastic music program and ofc...

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Magic Days Fantasy Festival
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Magic Days Fantasy Festival

Magical Days is Odense's fantasy festival for the whole family. Make your own magic wand, potion or experience the many other magical activities.

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