On April 28th, 2005 Germany's National Garden Festival will open its doors. Better known under its German acronym of BUGA (for "Bundesgartenschau") and located in eastern Munich's Messestadt Riem district, the festival is the largest of its kind in Europe – in two ways.

Four million people are expected to attend BUGA during its five-and-a-half month run. These people will ooh-and-ah over the 30,000 trees, 200,000 bushes, 2 million tulips and 26,000 flowering shrubs planted on the festival's 330 hectares. The core exhibition area comprises 130 hectares. Add in the millions of wildflowers dotting the festival's meadows and there's certainly enough to be seen.

Whilst delighting in the greenery, the visitors will also find time to swim in the eight hectare-large lake created for the festival, to ride the PeopleMover making its majestic way 28 meters above the festival's terrain, and to attend the concerts, fests and other events being held there.

For more information:
BUGA: practical information
BUGA: its highlights
BUGA: don't miss events
BUGA: its history
BUGA: the concept
BUGA: facts and figures
BUGA: press releases
BUGA: the map (PDF, 3,7 MB)
BUGA: bicycle lanes

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