Alanya International Culture and Art Festival

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Rockcorn Young Musıc Group Concert. 28 May 2011.

Alanya International Culture and Art Festival, is a festival that has been organized every year since 2001 in Alanya. The last Saturday and Sunday of the month of May are festival days for the southern Mediterranean town of Alanya. It is normally held on the last weekend in May; the 2011 festival was between 28 and 31 of May.

All aspects of the district’s cultural and artistic life finds representation at the event. Through the festivities, Alanya Municipality seeks to promote several forgotten or lost traditions and cultural assets by means of street exhibitions and shows.

Alanya has 12 sister cities from several foreign countries that also contribute to the festival. The town’s sister cities include Gladbeck in Germany, Schwechat in Austria, Fushun in China, Rovaniemi in Finland, Boras in Sweden, Talsi in Latvia, Trakai in Lithuania, Keszthely in Hungary, Wodzislaw Slaski in Poland, Nea-Ionia in Greece, Spindleruv-Mlyn in the Czech Republic and the Southeastern Administrative District of Moscow in Russia. 2011 theme is Turkey-Finland year.

The municipality of Alanya announces one of its sister cities as the Sister City of the year at each event, organizing several special activities from that city to promote its culture.

External links

• 2011 Programme