Fodor's Expert Review Glastonbury Festival

Held in Pilton (a few miles from the town of Glastonbury), the Glastonbury Festival is England's biggest and perhaps best annual music festival. For five days over the last weekend in June, it hosts hundreds of bands—established and up-and-coming—on five main stages, myriad smaller venues, and some thirty "areas." Tickets are steeply-priced—around £285—and sell out months in advance; they include entertainment, a camping area, and service facilities. The organizers also host open-air concerts on the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey, which take place in early August and feature big crowd-pullers (usually of an older vintage).