Alongside the world-famous Christkindlesmarkt, traditional festivals & markets such as the Nuremberg Old Town Festival, the Easter market and the Nuremberg funfairs, and cultural highlights such as the Blaue Nacht, Nuremberg also gives music lovers plenty of reasons to visit the Franconian metropolis. Unique music events such as the Bardentreffen, Germany's largest free open-air festival, the extraordinary Klassik Open Air concerts in the Luitpoldhain or the Rock im Park festival attract young and old every year.

But it is not only festivals, markets and music events that draw hundreds of thousands of people to Nuremberg every year – the city's well-rounded shopping scene also attracts many visitors, not to mention its diverse theatre and cabaret scene. Nuremberg's largest stage, the Staatstheater Nürnberg, offers a wide repertoire of the arts with its opera, ballet, drama and concert divisions.