About Godiva Festival
Situated in the city's noteworthy War Memorial Park, the three-day occasion offers extraordinary unrecorded music, family amusement, global food and drink, create town and kids' tomfoolery fair! Coordinated by Coventry City Council with the backing of accomplices, the celebration highly esteems offering the best of Coventry and Warwickshire upheld by top public craftsmen and entertainers. Starting around 1998 the celebration has been held in War Memorial Park, Coventry, albeit the starting points were planted as far back as 1190 when priests cast from Coventry Priory recounted the narrative of their benefactress, Lady Godiva Festival. The first recorded Godiva Festival Procession, initially known as the Great Fair, occurred on 31 May 1678 and has gone through numerous varieties as the centuries progressed. In certain years, more than 200,000 observers have lined the roads of Coventry to witnesses the mass of variety.