Our Grunwald combines three festivals in one: a military-historical
re-enactment, a music festival and a festival of medieval costume. The time frame that has to be respected for the re-enactment, is 1170 - 1520. The festival reconstructs the corresponding time period for large parts of
Western Europe, the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania, the Kingdom of
Poland and the
Baltics, and each participant is judged by a special commission to see if they comply with the era. For example, they have to send a photograph of the costumes to the commission. During two festival days, there are
knightly tournaments on foot, battles between
archers,
halberdiers and
spearmen, full-contact mass battles (
buhurts), a "Battle of the Yards" tournament,
equestrian tournaments and fight demonstrations. The central event is the reconstruction of the
Battle of Grunwald, that took place on July 15, 1410, at the
Prussian town of
Grunwald (modern territory of Poland). In 2015, a so-called “festival within the festival” was added to "Our Grunwald": a large-scale open-air concert, called “Feast after the Battle”, in which famous folk and rock bands of Belarus and foreign countries take part. It's been held annually ever since. == References ==