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If you’re heading to Europe for a holiday or a minibreak in the coming months, you may well be planning to see some famous sights, hit the shops or even relax on the beach in one of the warmer parts of the continent.
Then again perhaps you’d prefer to witness the making of a giant omelette, check out an air guitar championship or visit a brewery which allows you to soak in warm beer.
Because all of the above have made a new list of the top quirky attractions and experiences in Europe – all of them a little bit different from your average holiday fare.
The list, from Easyjet, was compiled from a longlist chosen by a panel of experts – with such offbeat spectacles as goat yoga, Finland’s Wife Carrying Championship and traditional Turkish oil wrestling also making the top 25.
‘We hope that this list surprises people and inspires them to try something or somewhere new, said Antonio Shabbir, EasyJet’s customer Experience Director.
‘Whether that’s exploring more of the places they love or visiting a new destination and its unique experiences for the first time, we encourage would-be travellers to get out there and do it.’
But what did make it to number one?
Top 25 quirky cultural experiences in Europe revealed
While the list features some genuine oddities and must-visits, the number one activity has been revealed as France’s Festival Of The Giant Omelette.
The annual ritual, which takes place in the French town of Bessieres on the first Monday after Easter, commemorates the story of Napoleon and his army spending a night there and feasting on a giant omelette cooked by them for a local innkeeper.
The omelette, which features 15,000 eggs, is cooked by a team of volunteers in a giant pan in the town square, before being divided up among the locals.
Cheese rolling remains as popular as ever in Gloucestershire’s annual event (Picture: Getty Images
Second on the list is Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora, Czechia – a centuries-old church which is decorated with 40,000 human bones – while Austria’s Starkenburger Beer Pools finish in third place.
That attraction, located in Tarrenz, is a brewery-turned-spa where you can enjoy a soak in a bath of warm beer.
Air Guitar is an art form in Finland (Picture: Getty Images)
The top five is completed by the Bob Sledding track in Prague, Czechia – which allows you to go sledding all year round – and Stockholm’s annual Zombie Walk, in which folks dress up as zombies and stalk the streets of the Swedish capital to raise money for charity.
And in the UK? The famous annual Coopers Hill cheese-rolling in Gloucestershire has finished in seventh place.
Here’s how the full list looks.
1. Festival of the Giant Omelette (Bessieres, France) – giant omelette making event
2. Sedlec Ossuary (Kutna Hora, Czechia) – an ancient church filled to the brim with human bones
3. Starkenberger Beer Pools (Tarrenz, Austria) – brewery turned spa where you can basically take a bath in beer
4. Bob Sledding track (Prague, Czechia) – test your Bob-sledding skills at this 1km track which is open all year round
5. Stockholm Zombie Walk (Stockholm, Sweden) – locals dress up as zombies and walk the streets in the name of charity
Stockholm’s zombie walk has become an annual event (Picture: Getty Images)
6 = David Hasselhoff Museum (Berlin, Germany) – as the name suggests, a museum dedicated entirely to the Knight Rider and Baywatch star, who is hugely popular in Germany
6 = Leftover Star Wars Sets (Tozeur, Tunisia) – check out the original set of Tattooine
6 = La Raima (Pobla del Duc, Spain) – aka ‘the Battle Of The Grapes’, a grape fight featuring 90 tonnes of the fruit
7 = Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling (Gloucestershire, UK) – a centuries old tradition in which participants roll a wheel of cheese down a hill
7 = Air Guitar Championships (Oulu, Finland) – participants put their air guitar skills to the test
8. Koslapp (Nationwide, Sweden) – an event held between April and May in which cows kept inside for winter are set free to roam across Sweden
9. Mud Olympics (Brunsbuttel, Germany) – enjoy a host of games, such as football and handball, all steeped in mud
Mud, mud, glorious mud in Brunsbuttel (Picture: Getty Images)
10 = King of Kaszubska Street (Szczecin, Poland)
10 = Tabernas Wild West (Almeria, Spain)
11. Kirkpinar (Edirne, Turkey)- traditional Turkish oil wrestling
12 = Rouketopolemos (Chios, Greece) – an annual fight between two churches using homemade fireworks
12 = Wife Carrying Championship (Sonkajarvi, Finland) – men carry their wives across an obstacle course, with the wife’s weight in beer given to the winner
13. Up Helly Aa (Shetland, UK) – residents of this Scottish town transform into Vikings for an evening of festivities
14. Visit Syros (Greece): a medieval village that overlooks the Aegean
15 = Gozo Beach (Gozo, Malta) – a deserted beach on this island off the coast of Malta
Medieval football is a big draw in Florence, Italy (Picture: Getty Images)
15 = Kukeri (Nationwide, Bulgaria) – a January-March ritual in which local men and boys dress up as monsters to chase away evil spirits (18 per cent)
15 = Goat Yoga (Amstelveen, Netherlands) – a yoga class on a farm surrounded by goats
16. Viking Sushi Adventure (Stykkisholmur, Iceland) –a historical boat trip through the fjords while dining on fresh shellfish and sushi caught by the crew while you sail
17. The Underwater city of Heracleion (Alexandria, Egypt) – a scuba diving expedition to explore this historic lost city
18. Calcio Fiorentino (Florence, Italy) – a re-enactment of a football match, Middle Ages style, which is a mix of football, rugby, and wrestling (14 per cent)
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