Alongside the highlights, there’s plenty of excitement all year round \u2013 you can get an overview of all events on the diverse events calendar<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n Viljandi Hanseatic Days take place on the first weekend of June. The event combines traditional street trading with modern community events, bringing together people from Viljandi and its surroundings, Estonia, and the whole world. <\/p>\n\n The Viljandi Folk Music Festival, also known as Viljandi Folk, has been bringing together great music from all over the world for 30 years. On the last weekend of July, Viljandi’s population doubles as nearly 25,000 guests arrive in the city to take part in this powerful international music celebration. <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Culture and sports all year round Viljandi city and county host a variety of events in every season. Here, active families, high-culture enthusiasts, and music and theatre lovers alike will find their favorites. Professional athletes and hobbyists are drawn by the springtime Grand Race around Lake Viljandi and several cycling competitions. The opening event of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":865,"parent":326,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-570533","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570534,"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570533\/revisions\/570534"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitviljandi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hanseatic Days<\/h2>\n\n
5.-7. June 2026<\/h3>\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\nViljandi Folk Music Festival<\/h2>\n\n
23. – 26. July 2026<\/h3>\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\nMore highlights in 2026<\/h2>\n\n
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