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A Renaissance Festival (medieval fair or ren faire) is an outdoor gathering that aims to entertain its guests by recreating a historical setting, most often the English Renaissance. Renaissance festivals generally include costumed entertainers or fair-goers, musical and theatrical acts, art and handicrafts for sale, and festival food.
Included below are the notable Renaissance, Medieval, and Fantasy fairs held in the United States. These include: any long running (20 plus years) fairs, and established fairs (5 plus years) that have a two-weekend or more annual run.
The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is a Renaissance fair occurring over 13 weekends from early-August through late-October on the grounds of the Mount Hope Estate and Winery in Manheim, Pennsylvania. [2] In 1980, the Estate was sold and converted to a winery.
The Minnesota Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance fair, an interactive outdoor event which focuses on recreating the look and feel of a fictional 16th Century "England-like" fantasy kingdom. [1] It operates during seven consecutive weekends, from mid-August until the final week in September (or sometimes the first weekend in October) on a ...
The fair will appeal to anyone who enjoys history, fantasy, and the magic of storytelling. The Red Apple Farm will be among the vendors at the Wyndonshire Renaissance Faire.
The Texas Renaissance Festival (dubbed the Ren Fest) is an annual Renaissance fair located in Todd Mission, Texas, about 55 miles northwest of Houston. [1] The Texas Renaissance Festival (TRF) started in 1974 on the location of an old strip mining site. The festival claims to be "the nation’s largest Renaissance theme park."
Sword fighting, belly dancing and lots of mead are on tap at the Delaware Renaissance Faire, which is three times longer this year. Last year's inaugural festival attracted about 3,000 guests in a ...
The first Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Northern California (RPFN) occurred in the fall of 1967. The nonprofit organization Living History Centre (LHC) [5] [6] was established in 1968 [7] as a way to establish the location of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire and as a way to reify the educational potentials of the public event.