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What 2017 holds in store

Sabine Oelze db
December 30, 2016

Europe's culture calendar is jam-packed in 2017. Here are some of the highlights, ranging from music in Hamburg to art in Athens.

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2017 promises to be a great year for cultural events, film, music and art alike.

Art lovers can travel from the Kassel Documenta contemporary art fair - which takes place every five years and draws many hundreds of thousands of visitors - to the Münster sculpture project, a gem on display only once every 10 years, and from Art Basel, a show "The New York Times" has called "Olympics of the Art World," to the Venice Art Biennale.

If that isn't enough, top-notch exhibitions, film festivals, book fairs and classical music festivals are also on the agenda across Europe.

Click through our gallery for a taste of the year's highlights.