Oktoberfest
I wanted to make a blog talking about Oktoberfest and completely forgot that it is currently happening. It's the world's biggest Folk Festival — and the most famous. Consistently, Oktoberfest draws in a great many guests. When an Oktoberfest attendee, consistently an Oktoberfest participant. Yet, not many of us know how everything started or even who we need to thank for Oktoberfest as it is known today. Now is the ideal time to change that. The yearly celebration that began in Munich, Germany, is held north of a sixteen-day time span and finishes on the first Sunday in October. The celebration began on October 12, 1810, with the festival of the marriage of the crown ruler of Bavaria, who later became Lord Louis I, to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. The celebration closed five days after the fact with a horse race held in an open region that came to be called Theresienwiese ("Therese's green"). The next year the race was joined with a state farmi...