The street festival “Viva la Strada!” will take place in Coburg in mid-September 2024. Visitors can look forward to a flea market, performances and various activities to take part in.
The local traders and restaurateurs from Herrngasse, Steingasse, Rückertstraße, Kirchhof and Markt will celebrate their beautiful streets on Saturday, September 21, 2024, from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m., according to Wohnbau Stadt Coburg GmbH in a press release. Together with many residents and the Aktionsgemeinschaft Zentrum Coburg eV, the city makers are organizing an atmospheric street festival under the motto “Viva la Strada!”.
“Our joint call for participation was successful and a great program has been created that has something for everyone,” says Hanna Rancke from the city makers, delighted with the great collaboration. On this late summer day, there is a lot on offer from the morning onwards: good food – especially Italian cuisine, Mediterranean drinks, live music, flea market stalls, children’s stations and street artists.
Herrngasse & market with live music, dancing & flea market
The Golden Cross invites you to a jazz brunch with Italian delicacies from 11 a.m. On top of that, from 5 p.m. the small but fine Lower Franconian band “Die Källermäster” will be creating a great atmosphere with hits and oldies from the 50s and 60s. At the Benz & Boicut art exhibition initiated by the Golden Cross, an Italian wine tasting by the Brettel Mitwitz wine house will take place between 4 and 8 p.m.
Just a stone’s throw away, in front of the Emozione and Nachhall shops, the band “Straight On” will be playing classic rock unplugged from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Both shops will also be holding a clothing flea market with trendy outfits, accessories and fashion treasures from 12 p.m. Pure Bartending offers coffee and cocktails, VinoFix has a great selection of bottled wines with big discounts and Pizzaiolo has delicious pizza and spritz to go.
The Coburg City Library is also celebrating and there is a book table for people to browse through for their trip to Italy, there is a picture book reading and children can paint bags. At a book flea market, guests can browse through new favorite books, the garden invites you to relax and you can practice hip swings with hula hoops.
The family office of the Demographics, Education and Family Department offers a pasta jewelery workshop for the whole family. Crafts can be made from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. A lemonade stand from the Green Deal Coburg rounds off the offer for families.
The tourist information team shows the newly renovated rooms and the beautiful inner courtyard. Visitors can also look forward to a small flea market and the occasional activity, such as duck fishing. And the Bavarian Insurance Company is enticing visitors with a wheel of fortune and attractive prizes.
Dancers from the TanzTRaum in Coburg bring their enthusiasm for dancing to the square and perform salsa and bachata in front of Leise am Markt from 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Italian flair is also taking hold at the market: guests can experience an Italian moment in front of the pancakes. The coffee truck from Café Schubart, a Citroën HY, is the perfect eye-catcher and offers coffee enjoyment like in Italy. The Pils Pup Humpen is tempting customers with discounts. And at the Coburg weekly market, not only is the food as delicious as ever, but there is also a Mediterranean atmosphere.
Steingasse & Kirchhof: Culinary, colourful and beautiful
In Steingasse, guests can expect mainly food and music, many restaurants open earlier for the street festival. The Italian live band “il-Duo” plays in Steingasse from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. In keeping with the theme, Bridget’s wine bar serves delicious aperitivos and from 5 p.m. relaxed beats with DJ Gramoe. Dal Passatore serves delicious pizza and everything that Italian cuisine has to offer. At Spiesser, Limoncello Spritz is served from midday, and food is available from 5 p.m. In Restaurant 1627, “Quattro Stagioni” tempts guests with culinary delights from four continents from 4 p.m. and an outdoor bar offers drinks from 12 p.m. DJ Stolli heats things up in front of 1627 from 7 p.m. Dornheim also offers its guests live music in the beer garden and at A Posto you can enjoy pizza and aperitifs.
The Neue Presse Coburg will be setting up its photo booth in Steingasse from 3:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Visitors can have their photo taken with funny props, in keeping with the Italian theme. Afterwards, the best photos will be chosen by voting. There are Coburg gift vouchers from the Aktionsgemeinschaft Zentrum Coburg eV and vouchers for the Café Hallo Dolly to be won.
The World Shop has fair trade chocolate, biscuits and more, and Veste-Verlag Roßteutscher has original Italian writing paper and its entire range of stationery. From 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., TanzTRaum will once again be bringing 7 dances to the dance floor or the street in front of Steingasse.
It is also worth visiting “around the corner”. In the churchyard, the vegan restaurant Koriander offers à la carte dishes from 12 noon and the arts and crafts workshop vero-vetro is holding a flea market and showing its glass objects and glass art.
Discover & Participate
During the street festival, it is worth looking up at the sky. Colorful pennants decorate the streets in Herrngasse and Steingasse. The organizers’ intention is for the garlands to remain after the festival – until the Christmas lights come up.
Shiny Vespas from Motorrad Reinhardt are lined up all over the square and Mr Mai, as a vintage entertainer, starts a curious fireworks display of comedy paired with artistry and bizarre illusions. The two rickshaws from the AWO Mehr Generationen Haus and the ASB Coburg make an entertaining rickshaw ride through the square possible.
ASCO Coburg has prepared a pocket-sized Italian guide exclusively for “Viva la Strada”. With important vocabulary for everyday life and things that Italians would never do, visitors are well prepared for their next trip to Italy.
With their activities, the participants of the “Viva la Strada” festival conjure up Italian moments and a “very special, lively atmosphere” in Coburg’s city center.
In the future, the Gassenfest will move from year to year, so that the different streets of Coburg will come into focus.
Further information on “Viva la Strada” can be found at www.coburg.de/vivalastrada.
