Each autumn, between six and seven million people gather in a 103-acre meadow in southwest Munich. They wear traditional dress like their grandparents and drink beer from heavy glasses that hold exactly one liter. Locals call the meadow the Wiesn, but the rest of the world knows it as Oktoberfest. More than two centuries old, the festival has grown louder, larger, and more Bavarian each year.
HOW A WEDDING BECAME A WORLD’S FAIR
Oktoberfest began
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