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Travel occasions and highlights

Suggestions for your group tour

Plan your next music tour, festive trip or group tour to the themes of reformation, art and railway romance...

...There are so many travel occasions to come to Germany in the next few years! Here you can get an overview of different events and highlights. We are happy to help you implementing your travel wishes to Dresden, Leipzig, Weimar or other cities - just contact us!

Anniversaries and events as travel occasions in the next years

What travel occasions can you expect in the coming years? Many events that had to be cancelled due to the Corona Crisis are annual events, so that these will be a perfect travel occasion also for the next year. In addition, we can already present you the following upcoming highlight especially for music lovers:

Musical Highlights 2025

Dresden Music Festival

Dresden, Saxony
09/05-14/06/2025

Music Tour Dresden

Gewandhaus Leipzig © AdobeStock 325819230 Andreas

Schostakowitsch Festival (50th anniversary of his death)

Leipzig, Saxony
15/05-01/06/2025
© AdobeStock 325819230 Andreas

Music tour Leipzig

Bach Festival Leipzig

Leipzig, Saxony
12/06-22/06/2025

Music Tour Bach

Würzburg Residence

Mozart Festival Würzburg

Würzburg, Bavaria
31/05-22/06/2025

House of Handel in Halle © Thomas Ziegler, Stadt Halle, Saale

Handel Festival Halle

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
06/06-15/06/2025
© Thomas Ziegler, Stadt Halle-Saale

Music tour Leipzig

Beethoven © IHoepping, Presseamt Bundesstadt Bonn

Beethoven Festival Bonn

Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
28/08-27/09/2025
© IHoepping, Presseamt Bundesstadt Bonn

Music tour Beethoven

Berlin State Opera © Marcus Ebener

The Ring of the Nibelung
cycle 1

Berlin State Opera
27/09, 28/09/, 01/10, 03/10/2025
© Marcus Ebener

Music tour Berlin

Berlin State Opera © Marcus Ebener

The Ring of the Nibelung
cycle 2

Berlin State Opera
05/10, 07/10/, 10/10, 12/10/2025
© Marcus Ebener

Music tour Berlin

Ensemble Dresdner Residenz Konzerte © Bernd Geller

300 Years of Vivaldi: Die Vier Jahreszeiten

2025
Dresdner Residenz Konzerte © Bernd Geller

Music tour Dresden

Exhibitions and und Anniversaries 2025

Chemnitz © Ernesto Uhlmann

Chemnitz European Capital of Culture

Chemnitz, Saxony
2025
© Ernesto Uhlmann

City Tour Chemnitz

Special exhibition: "Edvard Munch. Fear"

Chemnitz, Saxony
10/08-02/11/2025
© Ernesto Uhlmann

City Tour Chemnitz

Chemnitz © Ernesto Uhlmann

Special exhibition: "Treasures & Tragedies”"

Exhibition about Mining in the Ore Mountains
Chemnitz, Saxony
until 29/06/2025
© Ernesto Uhlmann

City Tour Chemnitz

Marktplatz in Weimar © Gert Lange, Weimar GmbH

Art Festival Weimar

Weimar, Thuringia
20/08-07/09/2025
© Gert Lange, Weimar GmbH

City tour Weimar

© Werbegemeinschaft Markgräferland GmbH

Open vineyard days along the Saxon Wine Trail

Saxony
30/08-31/08/2025
© Werbegemeinschaft Markgräferland GmbH

Saxon Wine Trail

Bauhaus Dessau

100th anniversary of the Bauhaus Dessau

Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt
09/2025-12/2026

Round Trip Bauhaus Germany

EastSideGallery © visitBerlin, Foto: ArtfullyMedia, Sven Christian Schramm

35 years of East Side Gallery

Berlin
September 2025
© visitBerlin, Foto: ArtfullyMedia, Sven Christian Schramm

City tour Berlin

Denkmal für ermordete Juden Europas © visitberlin, Foto: Wolfgang Scholvien

80th Anniversary:
End of World War 2

Germany
02/09/2025
© visitberlin, Foto: Wolfgang Scholvien

Japanisches Palais Dresden © Sebastian Weingart (DML-BY)

Exhibition: The Blue Swords - Meissen in the GDR

Dresden, Saxony
20/09/2025-22/02/2026
© Sebastian Weingart (DML-BY)

City tour Dresden

Alte Nationalgalerie und Neues Museum Berlin © Francisco Anzola

The Scharf Collection: Goya – Monet – Cézanne – Bonnard – Grosse

Berlin
24/10/2025-15/02/2026
© Francisco Anzola

City tour Berlin

Albertinum Dresden © Frank Exß (DML-BY)

20 Years
Gerhard Richter Archive

Dresden, Saxony
13/12/2025-15/03/2026
© Frank Exß (DML-BY)

City tour Dresden

Musical Highlights 2026

Magdeburg with bridge and cathedral © DZT, Francesco Carovillano

27th Magdeburg
Telemann Festival

Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
13/03-22/03/2026
© DZT, Francesco Carovillano

Leipzig Opera © Kirsten Nijhof

Albert Lortzing Festival “Lortzing26” Leipzig Opera

Leipzig, Saxony
24/04-03/05/2026
© Kirsten Nijhof

Music Tour Leipzig

Dresden Music Festival

Dresden, Saxony
15/05-14/06/2026

Music Tour Dresden

Bachdenkmal vor Thomaskirche in Leipzig

Bach Festival Leipzig

Leipzig, Saxony
12/06-21/06/2026

Music Tour Bach

House of Handel in Halle © Thomas Ziegler, Stadt Halle, Saale

Handel Festival Halle

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
05/06-14/06/2026
© Thomas Ziegler, Stadt Halle-Saale

Music tour Leipzig

© Franz Koshorst

150th anniversary of “The Ring of the Nibelung”

Bayreuth, 2026
© Franz Koshorst

Music Tour Wagner

Bach statue in the Bach Museum Leipzig

100 Years of Bach Festival Münster

Münster, 2026

Music tour Bach

Exhibitions and und Anniversaries 2026

Albertinum Dresden © Frank Exß (DML-BY)

Exhibition: Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch

Dresden, Saxony
08/02-17/05/2026
© Frank Exß (DML-BY)

City tour Dresden

Barberini Museum in Potsdam © DZT, Francesco Carovillano

Impressionism in Germany. Max Liebermann
and his time

Potsdam, Brandenburg
28/02-07/06/2026
© DZT, Francesco Carovillano

Speicherstadt Hamburg

"Flow of Paint = Flow of Life" Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch

Hamburg
27/03-23/08/2026

Steam Trains in Dresden

18th Steam Train Meeting Dresden

Dresden, Saxony
10/04-12/04/2026

Steam Train Tours

© Werbegemeinschaft Markgräferland GmbH

Open vineyard days along the Saxon Wine Trail

Saxony
29/08-30/08/2026
© Werbegemeinschaft Markgräferland GmbH

Saxon Wine Trail

Alte Nationalgalerie and Neues Museum Berlin © Francisco Anzola

Exhibition "Picasso and his time"

Berlin
2026
© Francisco Anzola

City tour Berlin