A brief history of Oktoberfest…

The Oktoberfest is the world's largest Volksfest (beer festival and traveling funfair). Held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, it is a 16- to 18-day folk festival running from mid- or late September to the first Sunday in October, with more than six million people from around the world attending the event every year. Locally, it is called d’Wiesn, after the colloquial name for the fairgrounds, Theresienwiese. The Oktoberfest is a very celebrated and important part of Bavarian culture, having been held all the way back since the year 1810. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that are modeled after the original Munich event.