Calpe Oktoberfest - Beer Festival

This year, Calpe celebrates its XXIII edition of Calpe’s Oktoberfest, the so awaited big beer party where beer and the Club Carnaval Calpe take centre stage.

The “Oktoberfest 2010” festival in Calpe starts on October 7th, 2010, and will cheer the town until October 17th. This is, without a doubt, a have-to for those staying in Calpe or visiting. It will take place in the Beer Fiestas tent facing the Silene Ifach children day care. The tent will be open to the public from 18:00 h and the music shows will start at 19:00 h. Exceptions are October 10th and 12 th, open from 11:00 h to 14:00 h as well, featuring the Tourist Day with a paella contest and country music on the 10th, and a jazz show on the 12th. 

Another novelty for this year is the HAPPY HOUR, with special prices from the 12th to the 15th, 18:00 h to 19:30 h. Come to the Oktoberfest supertent that Calpe has prepared for you and enjoy this lively ambient with a good mug of beer.  

Bikers day is the 17^th and gives the Beer Festival its traditional send off!

When you hear another year, "O'zapft is" Oktoberfest Calpe begin. The "Calpe Beer Festival, organized by the Club Carnaval Calpe, 1982 (CCC) will be held each year in early October with typical German beer and pork knuckles behind the Club de Tenis in Calpe. The "Oktoberfest" in Calpe Beer Festival is the oldest and largest in Spain (others are in Bilbao, Salamanca, Cuenca and Mallorca. It also has the "Oktoberfest Calpe" as the largest festival of the Costa Blanca.

The history of the original Beer Festival in Munich,  began in October 1810. This day celebrated the Prince Ludwig, later King Ludwig I. Bavarian its commitment to Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. The citizens of Munich were invited to the wedding in a prairie town. In honor of the bride was given the name "El Prado Theresia. Today it is still held every year in late September in the place of the traditional festival. The Oktoberfest in Munich is the largest festival in the world and this year marks the 174th edition, to be attended by millions of visitors.

Be held in Calpe Beer Festival in October and all fans of the beer festival will quench your thirst with about 300 barrels were imported again this year from Munich, and enjoy tasty German sausages or knuckle popular. Another year to perform during the 12 days the "Original Steinsberger Musikanten", known in Calpe and television.

To accommodate such an event, the Club Carnaval Calpe enclosure have fairs and festivals with a tent over 15,000 square meters, estimates received during the 12-day visit More than 20,000 people with the help of the City of Calpe. A spectacular event planning needs with experience and adequate logistics. That is why over 25 waitresses guarantee /-I and more than 15 people in the kitchen, barbecue, cellar bar, box art and on stage that visitors will pass pump.

Members of the Club Carnaval Calpe CCC began in 1988 in the supermarket parking lot and follow Jovima this year with the traditional custom of the Mayor of Calpe sting start the day the first barrel at 20:00 pm Following is the act of the coronation of the queen of Oktoberfest.