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Rezekne Seven Hills Festival in Rezekne
Rēzekne's Seven Hills Festival takes its name from wordplay: the city's name has seven letters, and organizers liken its surrounding terrain to Rome's seven hills. Staged every two years in the last weeks of May, the festival mixes contemporary art exhibitions, wall paintings, and live sculpture shows with music, dance, street performance, and improvisation, anchored by an artisan village at Rēzekne Castle Mound.
Rēzekne's Seven Hills Festival starts with a piece of wordplay that doubles as civic pride: the city's name in Latvian runs to seven letters, and its surrounding landscape has long been likened, only half-seriously, to Rome and its own seven hills.