Stuttgart Summer Festival

This year Stuttgart presents the 23d Summer Festival from the 1rst to the 4rth of August 2013.
The program is not yet published for this year but you will find a large variety of different live acts like every year. Just have a look at the program of last year.

It hadn't been planned like that in former times. Originally the festival was supposed to be a one off event for the final of the bicycle world championsship in 1991.
The festival was a great success and has been repeated for 22 times until now. Still it is very successful and appreciated by lots of visitors.

The castle square in the center of Stuttgart is packed with white tents, last year there were 29 different locations where you could try specialities and have a glass of beer or wine. 36 bands were playing live on 5 stages during these 4 days.

Salsa dancing in Stuttgart

Stuttgart has a large salsa scene and offers possibilities for dancing throughout the week. Many locations have opened and closed again during the years, several try to do one salsa evening per night - generally these places aren't only into salsa but also other dances and will play other kinds of music on the rest of the week.
The most beautiful und one of the largest locations is the Buddha Lounge, formerly Schützenhaus which offers salsa every Sunday night and sometimes on Fridays on special "Latin Nights".
Another place with a long tradition since 1989 is El Pasito which offers Salsa twice a week as well as Salsa, Tango, Flamenco and Spanish lessons, it is managed by a Peruvian guy, Francisco who also has other offers like Spanish courses and lessons about South American Culture.
Zapata is an old factory buildung transformed in a Club. In former times the salsa nights were held on the largest floor - these were the times all Salsa lovers still remember as the "Good Times". Nowadays they are reduced to one of the smaller floors on Saturday night.
There is 7 Grad in Theodor-Heuss-Straße every Thursday night.
Litfaß hosts a Cuban night every Wednesday.
You will get other information going to the sites www.salsa-stuttgart.de and www.latin.de where all the events are listed.