{"id":33971,"date":"2025-03-04T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxuryescapes.com\/inspiration\/?p=33971"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T22:20:07","slug":"world-anniversaries-worth-travelling-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxuryescapes.com\/inspiration\/world-anniversaries-worth-travelling-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Anniversaries Worth Travelling For"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Take a global spin to some of the biggest celebrations of 2025.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ends of wars, beginnings of nations, 2025 has a bumper crop of anniversaries including the birth of modern Vietnam and the end of World War II, Oscar Wilde witticisms and Julie Andrews\u2019 mountain romps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austria: Waltzing in Vienna<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Women fainted, welded-together couples scandalised \u2013 the \u2018wicked\u2019 waltz of Vienna\u2019s 1800s was a fast and furious dance led by the Waltz King, Johann Strauss. Best known for his Blue Danube waltz, Strauss was born in 1825 and the Austrian capital has a dizzying array of events for his bicentenary. The interactive New Dimensions exhibition<\/a> serves up the scandal on Strauss, take in a cabaret-style Strauss dinner and show, catch a concert in one of Strauss\u2019 original venues in the House of Strauss<\/a> or admire his pianos, violins and original scores at the Wien Museum. While in Austria, it’s also the 60th anniversary of The Sound of Music<\/em>, filmed in Salzburg. Take a SOM tour or book to visit the new exhibition dedicated to Julie Andrews\u2019 mountain romps in the Salzburg Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ireland: Wilde days<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThere is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.\u201d The maestro of the one-liner, Oscar Wilde, died 125 years ago, and Ireland commemorates its wittiest son with a new festival. In Our Dreams runs from October 16-20 in Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, where the flamboyant author went to school. In Dublin, visit Trinity College<\/a>, where Wilde was a scholar, and take a tour of his childhood home, now called Oscar Wilde House<\/a>, which comes with a barrage of pithy bon mots and stories of the writer, who died in Paris in 1900 after serving two years\u2019 hard labour for gross indecency \u2013 the crime of homosexuality. It also runs the Oscariana<\/a> festival each October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA: The Happiest Place on Earth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s 70 years since the world\u2019s first Disneyland<\/a> opened, putting Anaheim, California<\/a> on the map. The theme of the 70th celebrations is \u201cCelebrate Happy\u201d and the Happiest Place on Earth<\/a> celebrates with new nighttime parades, and on the birth date, July 17, the debut of a cinematic presentation of Walt Disney\u2019s journey to becoming a global cultural behemoth. The movie will show at the Main Street Opera House theatre each night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Japan: A plea for peace<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A sombre commemoration takes place in Nagasaki<\/a> as it marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. Nagasaki Memorial Day conducts its annual commemoration for the victims of the bombing on August 9. It will be followed by the Nagasaki Bunkasai Peace Festival, from September 14 to November 30, with tea festivals, dance and music underpinning a message of peace, remembrance and anti-nuclear advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United Kingdom: Regency renegades<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Beloved British author Jane Austen<\/a> was born on 16 December, 1775, and the 250th year is marked by the annual Jane Austen Festival, held every September. Most of the action is centred around Hampshire, where she lived and is now buried, and Bath, where her novels ‘Persuasion’ and ‘Northanger Abbey are set. Fill your dance card with a season of country dances, musicals, soirees, promenades, a summer ball in June and a Regency-era style Yuletide ball in December, close to her birthdate. Expect fine white gowns and plenty of smart, red military unforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA: The Big Apple grows up<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The city that never sleeps blows 400 candles<\/a> out on its cake this year. Named New Amsterdam by Dutch settlers in 1625, the city<\/a> tells its history, from the Indigenous Lenape people to its current incarnation as the Big Apple in a series of art installations at the mayor\u2019s NYC residence, Gracie Mansion, and special performances by the New York Philharmonic. And \u2013 jazz hands – it\u2019s also the centenary of F Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s Jazz Age novel, The Great Gatsby<\/em>, set on Long Island, an hour and an era away from NYC. Catch Gatsby the musical<\/a> on Broadway until September 7, or take a tour of the Long Island mansions including Oheka Castle and Eagles Nest Vanderbilt Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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