As part of the town's Christmas festivities, locals dress up as Oliver Twist, Scrooge and 900-odd other characters from Charles Dickens novels for two days to celebrate the life and times of the 19th-century English…

On the first weekend of July, Deventer become a massive theatre with 150 performances of all kinds taking over its old-town streets and squares. Theatre companies (some on stilts, hence the name), circus troops and …

Bookworm heaven! More than 850 dealers of used and rare books set up stalls by the river and in the old town (including on the Brink, Zandpoort, Polstraat, Melksterstraat, Grote Kerkhof, Nieuwe Markt and Vispoort), …