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Colours of Ostrava
An industrial city in northeastern Moravia, once the coal and steel heart of the country, now reinventing its Dolni Vitkovice ironworks as a cultural landmark. Ostrava hosts Colours of Ostrava, the Czech Republic's biggest multi-genre music festival.
Run by Colour Production, with published dates and a real program.
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Why here
Colours of Ostrava is the Czech Republic's biggest multi-genre music festival, held every July inside Dolni Vitkovice, a decommissioned ironworks, coal mine and steel complex in the industrial city of Ostrava. Since 2012 the festival has used the raw setting of blast furnaces, gas holders and towers as its backdrop, with stages built among the machinery and a converted gas holder serving as an indoor hall. The line-up spans rock, pop, world and electronic music with headline international acts, alongside Meltingpot, a forum of talks and debates. Over four days it draws around fifty thousand people a day. For a festival that turns heavy industry into a stage, in a corner of Moravia most visitors never reach, Ostrava in July is the reason to go.
Best months
The festival runs for four days in mid-July across the Dolni Vitkovice site, a mix of open-air stages and indoor halls in the old ironworks. July is warm, and the industrial grounds can be hot in the sun and busy in the evenings. Camping and tickets sell through the festival, with the bigger headline nights the busiest.
Getting there & around
Ostrava is about three to four hours east of Prague by train or road, near the Polish and Slovak borders, with its own airport and fast rail links. The Dolni Vitkovice festival site is a few kilometres from the city centre and served by public transport and festival shuttles. Book accommodation or camping early, as the city fills for the festival weekend.
Skill levels: beginner
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Colours of Ostrava
OrganizerColours of Ostrava is produced by the company Colour Production and has grown since its founding in 2002 into one of central Europe's largest music festivals. Since 2012 it has been staged in the Dolni Vitkovice area, a former ironworks and coal mine in Ostrava, using the industrial monuments as stages and a converted gas holder as an indoor hall. Each July it programmes hundreds of concerts plus the Meltingpot forum, drawing crowds of around fifty thousand a day.