Hot air balloon festival
As Montgolfiade hot air balloon meeting be called. An often several consecutive days of competitions between each balloon teams are played: target approach, time travel and more. It is often possible to ride as a passenger in the balloon and give a kind of balloon mail. At dusk, often there is a so-called balloon glow. The name Montgolfiade derives from the Montgolfier brothers, who constructed the first a hot air balloon.
Known Montgolfiaden are:
- Bad Homburg Montgolfiade
- Festival International de Ballons, Château d'Oex, Switzerland
- Montgolfiade Münster
- Porta! Balloon Fiesta Bielefeld
- Saxonia International Balloon Fiesta
- Sint -Niklaas, Belgium
- Tegernsee valley Montgolfiade
- Thuringian Montgolfiade in Bad Colberg- Heldburg
- Warsteiner Internationale Montgolfiade
- Düsseldorf Balloon Festival
- Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons in Chambley at Metz, France (the largest in Europe Montgolfiade )
- Dreikönigstreffen in Kißlegg
- Ballooning