Trollhättan - Vänersborg - Events
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Waterfall Festival
One of Sweden’s oldest festivals starts every third Friday in July. This is a festival for all ages, both in terms of music and activities. The Waterfall festival is replete with performances, theatre, dancing, music and sporting events. The falls are active during the festival, and there is a magnificent fireworks display.
Aqua Blue Water and Music Festival
Bring your family and friends and try out some sailing, aquarelle painting, fishing, or canoeing. Watch the waterskiing and the sailing races, visit the boat show or participate in the beach volleyball competition. Enter the salmon fishing competition in the harbour canal. Aqua Blue offers you lovely food and hundreds of different activities with water and music as a central themes. Visit Aqua Blue in June and listen to the rippling Lake Vänern!
Volkswagen Meet
VW Airheads is a club for enthusiasts of aircooled VW’s. The VW meet takes place in July, on Sweden’s most beautiful site for events such as this one Sanden under the Dalbo bridge. It is a gathering that has become one of Europe’s largest for air-cooled beetles and vans. Come and take a look at around 350 amazing, original, modified and custom-built cars from all parts of Europe. The meeting hosts cars from all parts of Europe every year.
Veteran Car Meet
Every Wednesday evening during the months of June until August, the area between the upper locks and the Canal Museum is filled with wellpolished and preserved veteran cars. It’s a meeting place for both car- and mingling enthusiasts. Many also use the opportunity to savour the Locks Café’s renowned shrimp sandwiches in the evening sun.
Experience Halle-Hunneberg
Enjoy a sense of olden times and visit the traditional charcoal stack of Erdalen, Hunneberg that will be inaugurated in September 2009. The autumn at Halle-Hunneberg is heralded by a mushroom exhibition, pony riding, children’s activities and more at Bergagården. Bergens dag at the end of August (the Day of the mountains) is celebrated at Grinnsjö with tar boiling and coffee with field-baked bread.
Aurora Chamber Music Festival
After the successes of former years the Aurora Chamber Music Festival, together with the Aurora String Quartet and the Aurora Festival Strings, will bring a number of exciting and international top artists to Trollhättan in July. The Aurora String Quartet and the Aurora Scholarship will be performing along with this year’s Aurora Scholarship holders.
Alliansloppet
In August the Alliansloppet race for roller skis or inlines is held. The race runs from Trollhättan to Vänersborg through malls, city and countryside.
It is the largest event of its kind in the Nordic region.
River Culture
Once autumn has come around, you can go and see the artists and craftsmen of the Göta River valley in their studios and workshops. This event is a well-appreciated tradition that grows stronger by the year.
Christmas Spirit
Purchase your game NATURALLY - at our Christmas fair at Bergagården on Hunneberg! Appreciate the stalls, decorated with Christmas trees and branches, and the exciting scents and sweetmeats that nature provides. Experience a Christmas fair with ancient traditions at Vänersborg’s Museum on the Saturday prior to the first Advent Sunday. Handicrafts, Christmas food, books, music, and mulled wine olden-day surroundings.
Visit Brålanda’s world-renowned Christmas Parade with its 2,500 Santa Clauses and a Christmas fair.
On the first Advent Sunday, the cultural centre Folkets Hus in Trollhättan is transformed into Father Christmas’ workshop. Here, genuine handicraft is on offer, ranging from wooden articles and chandeliers to turkey and Christmassy beverages.
