The German city of Ludwigsburg hosts the largest pumpkin festival in the world, held annually from early September to November at the Blühendes Barock castle in Ludwigsburg, built between 1704 and 1733 and is the largest preserved Baroque castle in Germany.
Bringing in more than 800 different kinds and 450,000 pumpkins grown in southwest Germany, the city arranges them based on a theme that varies year by year.
This year’s theme is ‘Welcome to the Circus’ so all the statues and displays have something to do with the circus, acrobatics, performers, or clowns The festival includes more than 450 species of pumpkins, some of which are edible and others that are solely used for display purposes.
The events include the pumpkin regatta, European pumpkin championship and giant pumpkin carving.