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Fredericksburg Christmas & Holiday Guide Now Available

FREDERICKSBURG, TX — The annual Fredericksburg Christmas & Holiday Guide – including a calendar of exciting Hill Country holiday events – is now available from the Fredericksburg Convention and Visitor Bureau (FCVB). This handy guide is packed-full of area holiday entertainment scheduled for the 2012 holiday season running Thanksgiving weekend through January 1. Get in [...]

Grand Re-Opening Event at Lady Bird Johnson Golf Course

FREDERICKSBURG, TX — Following a monumental nine month, $2 million renovation, the Lady Bird Johnson Golf Course is scheduled to reopen Friday, September 28, with a special Grand Opening Event giving a limited number of golfers the opportunity to be the first on the new greens. The course is located at 341 Golfer’s Loop in [...]

Hill Country Film Festival Announces Film Lineup

Third Annual Festival to Showcase More than 50 Independent Films from Around the World With a record of more than 200 films submitted for this year’s festival, the Hill Country Film Festival (HCFF), an independent film event held in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, Fredericksburg, Texas (April 26-29, 2012), announced today the lineup [...]

Big Plans for Festivals during Weekend of April 27 in Fredericksburg, Texas

There are always plenty of reasons to visit Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country – the B&Bs, the wine, shopping, the festivals, Enchanted Rock and more! During April, milder temperatures across Texas make quick road trips even more appealing, especially to Fredericksburg where the profusion of color from wildflowers is everywhere. And during that final [...]

Quilt – blocks made in Germany and pieced-together by sister city in United States — now hangs in Fredericksburg Visitor Information Center

In the spirit of cooperation and sharing, a Twinning or Sister City Agreement between the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur in Germany and the City of Fredericksburg (TX) in the United States was created in September 1997. Today, a handmade quilt, made cooperatively by citizens in both cities, hangs in the Visitor Information Center (VIC) at 302 [...]

Costumed Pre-Lenten Parties Take Center Stage in Fredericksburg in February

Fredericksburg residents and visitors will have two weekends to celebrate before the Lenten season begins on Ash Wednesday. Inspired by Germany’s “go a little crazy” pre-Lenten Karneval season, in the late 1800’s the Casino Club of Fredericksburg sponsored masquerade balls in the Nimitz Ballroom to give its members one last fling before Lent began. [...]

After the Longest Drought in Five Centuries, Experts Predict a Colorful Spring for the Texas Hill Country

John R, Thomas, CEO of the largest working wildflower farm in the world, says the recent showers and mild weather have aided bluebonnets and other wildflowers to germinate in November, plenty of time to develop into large hardy plants for a colorful spring show. “Despite the drought, there will be wildflowers in the Texas Hill [...]

Fredericksburg & Gillespie County continues to see wine industry expansion

Growth, much like the region’s grapes, continues as Fredericksburg and the surrounding Hill Country region in Gillespie County see more wineries and wine tasting rooms added to the already impressive number in place. This fall two wineries/tasting rooms joined the mix of wineries, winery-owned tasting rooms, wine tasting rooms and custom wineries in Gillespie County [...]

LBJ Ranch Texas White House entire first floor opens on December 22

December 22, the 99th anniversary of Lady Bird Johnson’s birth, is the first day the general public will tour the entire ground floor of the famous Texas White House. The ranch house, which served presidents, prime ministers, ambassadors, and heads-of-state, gained fame during the 1960s when President and Mrs. Johnson hosted hundreds of visitors on [...]

Torre di Pietra Vineyards in Fredericksburg to host 6th Annual Black Eyed Pea and Cornbread Cook off on New Year’s Day

Torre di Pietra Vineyards will host its 6th Annual Black Eyed Pea and Cornbread Cook off on Sunday, January 1, 2012 – New Year’s Day – from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. at the vineyards on Hwy 290 E. outside Fredericksburg, Texas, with live music by The Almost Patsy Cline Band. It’s said in Texas [...]

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“Head to Fredericksburg, one of the Lone Star State’s most charming towns and the Hill Country’s unofficial capital of food and wine.” Wine Spectator Magazine

“A museum of this quality, and importance, needs to be seen by many more.” The Wall Street Journal on the National Museum of the Pacific War

USA Today lists the Texas Hill Country in “10 Great Places for Local Wines” and says, “With all the attention, the town of Fredericksburg has become a mini-Napa with fine restaurants, shopping and bed-and-breakfasts.”

The New York Times listed the Texas Hill Country as the top place to go for the summer of 2008.

The readers of Southern Living in 2009 ranked Fredericksburg as one of the top three best small towns in the South.

Named by author Patricia Schultz in her popular book entitled 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.

Gillespie County was named one of the “top ten best places to live in rural America” by Progressive Farmer Magazine.

Fredericksburg’s Oktoberfest was named one of the “12 Travel Highlights for 2009” by msn.com.

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