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Historical mega spectacle, the Renaissance festival, connects late medieval historical facts and the uniqueness of Koprivnica, Podravina and Croatia with the heritage of the West-European cultural and civilizational sphere (part of which is Croatia), seen at the festival in many knight, crafts and musical groups from around ten European countries. The event is a great example of the development of European identity of the town and the region, and in 2015 and 2016 it was declared TOP event in Croatia in competition with all public events, and was given a Superbrands status in The four-day event reconstructs the era when Koprivnica became a Royal Free City (in 1356), and it mostly deals with the period from the end of 15th and 16th century, the period that the Renaissance earth fortifications (where the entire event takes place) originate from. A lot of the content of the four-day event convincingly brings visitors back in those immemorial times, captured by “medieval” craftsmen (it is the biggest medieval trade fair in this part of Europe), merchants, knights, ladies, the king and his court men, waifs, beggars, serfs, alchemists, musicians, entertainers and many others, such as cooks who prepare medieval dishes on site. Only drinks from that era like mead, wine and beer are served, namely from wooden or ceramic cups and bowls. More than one thousand costumed performers coming from Koprivnica, some other part of Croatia or even broader (Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina) leave nobody indifferent, and many visitors can interact and participate in the programme with them. Renaissance festival has been organised since 2006, and it has already become the largest and most complex event of the kind in this part of Europe (according to local and foreign participants, as well as many delighted visitors from the country and abroad.) Renaissance festival will continue the trend of prohibition of using plastic eating and drinking utensils so the medieval life in the course of the four days that it lasts would be more authentic. This is no easy task because we have to make around ten thousand ceramic beer mugs with the event’s logo, so that each visitor who uses our catering services could get a unique souvenir for a symbolic price. Visitors will be able to keep the beer mug or return it and request refund. We will also form a jury again, and they will walk around presenters and warn them about their shortcomings (adequate luminaires, non-use of plastic bags and plastic eating and drinking utensils, adequate costumes Up until our event the oldest part of the town was abandoned and completely neglected (the earth fortifications and the Armoury building.) Other than clearing the greatest part of the wild vegetation and weeds, we have also tidied up the devastated ground floor of the Armoury. To capture the era that we are talking about more convincingly, we have built wooden palisades (fortifications and towers), placed a wooden bridge where it stood in the era, and also set temporary wooden objects for people and animals. We have also staged an attack (diurnal and nocturnal) on the fort which attracts and fascinates a great number of visitors.
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Renesansni festival 23.-26. 08. 2018. Povijesni mega spektakl Renesansni festival sljubljivanje je kasnosrednjovjekovnih povijesnih fakata i originalnosti Koprivnice, Podravine i Hrvatske s baštinskim vrijednostima zapadnoeuropskog kulturnog civilizacijskog kruga (čiji je dio i Hrvatska), a koje se na Festivalu manifestiraju kroz brojne viteške, obrtničke i glazbene skupine iz desetak europskih zemalja. Manifestacija je pravi primjer razvijanja europskog identiteta Grada i Regije, a 2015. i 2016. godine proglašena je za TOP manifestaciju u Hrvatskoj u konkurenciji svih javnih događanja, te joj je 2016. godine dodijeljen Superbrands status. Četverodnevna manifestacija rekonstruira razdoblje kada je Koprivnica postala slobodnim kraljevskim gradom (1356.), a najviše se bavi razdobljem s kraja 15. st. te 16. st. iz kojeg potječu ostaci renesansnih bedema na kojima se i odvija cjelokupni program. Mnogobrojni sadržaji četverodnevne manifestacije uvjerljivo vraćaju posjetitelje u davno minulo vrijeme, a to dočaravaju „srednjovjekovni“ zanatlije (najveći sajam srednjovjekovnih obrta u ovom dijelu Europe), trgovci, vitezovi, dame, kralj i dvorjani, skitnice, prosjaci, kmetovi, alkemičari, muzičari, zabavljači i mnogi drugi, poput kuhara koji na licu mjesta spremaju jela po srednjovjekovnim receptima, a piju se samo pića iz tog vremena poput medovine, vina i piva, i to iz drvenih i lončarskih čaša i posuda. Više od 1000 kostimiranih izvođača, što koprivničkih, što hrvatskih, ali i inozemnih (Slovenija, Italija, Mađarska, Češka, Slovačka, Francuska, Njemačka, Austrija, Poljska, BiH) nikoga ne ostavljaju ravnodušnim, a mnogobrojni posjetitelji mogu s njima interaktivno sudjelovati u programu. Renesansni festival organizira se od 2006. godine, a već je postao najveća i najkompleksnija manifestacija tog tipa u ovom dijelu Europe (mišljenje domaćih i inozemnih sudionika, kao i mnogobrojnih, oduševljenih posjetitelja iz zemlje i inozemstva). Renesansni festival nastaviti će s trendom zabrane korištenja plastičnog pribora za jelo i piće kako bi srednjovjekovni život u četiri dana održavanja bio što autentičniji. To nije nimalo lak zadatak zato što moramo izraditi desetak tisuća keramičkih krigli s logom manifestacije, kako bi svaki posjetitelj koji će koristiti ugostiteljske usluge na manifestaciji mogao dobiti jedinstven suvenir za simboličnu cijenu. Posjetitelji će moći zadržati kriglu ili je vratiti te zatražiti povrat novca. Također ćemo ponovno oformiti komisiju koja će obilaziti izlagače i upozoravati ih na nedostatke (adekvatna rasvjetna tijela, nekorištenje plastičnih vrećica te plastičnog pribora za jelo i piće, adekvatni kostimi i sl.) Do naše manifestacije najstariji prostor grada bio je zapušten i totalno zanemaren (zemljani bedemi i zgrada Oružane). Osim što smo počistili najveći dio samonikle vegetacije i korova, uredili smo i devastirano prizemlje Oružane. Kako bismo što uvjerljivije dočarali razdoblje o kojem pričamo, sagradili smo drvene palisade (bedeme i kule), postavili drveni most na mjestu gdje su oni i bili u ta vremena, a također smo postavili privremene drvene objekte za ljude i životinje. Inscenirali smo i napad (dnevni i noćni) na utvrdu što je privuklo i oduševilo velik broj posjetitelja.