The city festival is called "49'er" days, which commemorates the 1949 incorporation.
Eastern Europe offers mostly city festivals, but there are some with strong thematic subtexts.
Once exclusively a rural celebration, today, in Brazil, it is now largely a city festival.
In Sparta a form of episkyros was played during an annual city festival that included five teams of 14 players.
The city festival occurs annually on the first Sunday in July.
It is a city festival with different activities, such as concerts and performances.
Special episodes feature in-depth city, beach, dive, shopping, history, festival, and food guides.
The association also requires drivers to perform charitable work, usually providing free transportation to city festivals and other special events.
Events ranging from traditional city festivals to music, theatre or cinema take place all year round, while they specially thrive in summer.
It has become East Germany's largest city festival with more than 150,000 visitors in 2006.