Foolish pleasures mix with artisans treasures.
The Festival features music, theatre, comedy, hearty food and drink, fine hand-crafted exhibits, games for young and old, and the excitement of knights in armor engaged in tournament jousting in the King's equestrian arena. Arizona's Renaissance Festival is a popular regional event. Hundreds of thousands of visitors head to the foothills of the Superstition Mountains, transformed into a thirty acre 16th Century village celebrating romance and pageantry of Renaissance Europe. You can mingle with the lowliest of peasants to King Henry himself. These pages are being updated for the 2001 season.