There are beautiful bike trails on which you can cycle from town to town or out to Ruegen or Hiddensee.

The Wallenstein festival in July is great fun when the town square is transformed into a market from the 1600s, bustling with traders, craftsmen and people in period costumes. Baroque fireworks and a Wallenstein party round off the event.

Hundreds of cranes return to Stralsund during Crane Week, usually the last week in September – a true delight for bird lovers.

Every year from June to mid-August, you can watch Opera in the Open Air on the Sea Stage at Stralsund.

At the annual regatta in June is the Stralsund Swim in the Sound, Germany’s oldest long-distance swimming event. About one thousand swimmers jump in the water and splash their way from Ruegen to Stralsund where a huge party follows at Stralsund’s

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