CROATIAN TOURISM – Špancirfest

Špancirfest started its story twenty years ago as the first street festival in Croatia. Today, it is one of the most visited and most popular national festival events in Croatia. The idea behind Špancirfest is to provide a content during the ten days of the festival that will arouse the feeling of belonging in each visitor to a community that nurtures creative thinking and freedom of expression. The festival gathers professional and amateur artists from around the world, from musicians of various genres to street theatre and multimedia performances, and turns the historic core of Varaždin into a large open stage. Špancirfest is a synonym for Varaždin and it is its brand. The business and tourism results generated each year show the importance of the festival for the development and growth of an entire string of businesses associated with tourism. This year, Špancirfest will hold its 20th jubilee edition. The festival itself has gone through an amazing makeover and has grown from a manifestation whose purpose was to bring several days of street entertainment to Varaždin and attract visitors from the immediate region to a ten-day event visited by more than 265 thousand visitors in 2017. Varaždin Špancirfest, as a part of the project of the Annual Croatian Tourism Award implemented by the Ministry of Tourism, Croatian National Tourist Board and Croatian Chamber of Economy, was declared the tourism event of 2017. Varaždin Tourist Board