Alabama Renaissance Festivals and Faires

• When: One Weekend in April
• Where:
  Town Park
  Ardmore, AL
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Walk through our gates and enter a world of live Celtic Music and experience a living-history weekend. Shop the marketplace for period clothing, swords, candles, jewelry and masks. Test your skills in our gaming glen, (play chess with our chess guru or perhaps archery is your thing). Learn Celtic or May Pole Dancing. Cheer on dashing knights engaged in games of fencing and rapier. A children's area with a castle jump, arts and crafts area, storytelling, puppeteers. A variety of food vendors and a dining pavilion.

• When: First Saturday in May
• Where:
  Wilson Park
  Florence, AL
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The Renaissance Faire covers the period of time from the 12th through the 16th centuries. Authentic costumes, arts and crafts, and food are all a part of the Faire. Visitors can take part in medieval games and hear musicians playing authentic instruments. Artisans and merchants offer coins of the realm, hand-thrown pottery, jewelry, dried flower wreaths, and many other delights. Magicians, mirthmakers and minstrels wander about in period attire.

• When: One Weekend in November
• Where:
  Greater Gulf State Fairgrounds
  1035 Cody Road N Mobile, AL
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Come out for 2 days of Medieval Fun! Eat, drink and be merry as you are entertained by Jousting Knights, Falconry, Pirates, Magical Wizards, Medieval Fighters, Dancers, Musicians, Theatre, Fire Breathers, Jesters, Jugglers, Food and Drink, Games of Skill, Rides, Merchants and more!! Meet the King and Queen and much more!

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There are people from all walks of life who attend renaissance festivals, and that calls for a lot of crazy costuming. Find out what is generally appropriate and learn how to create some of your own renaissance festival 'garb'.

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Find renaissance festivals in your state or in the neighboring states, or plan a weekend of costume fun on a medieval vacation across the country. This map of U.S. renaissance festivals will help you in your quest.