May 24, 2025 to May 26, 2025

Food Festival

Blenheim Palace

Head to Blenheim for a three-day extravaganza featuring a feast of culinary delights! Enjoy a diverse selection of delicious produce from both local and national vendors, including artisan treats, homemade goodies, craft beers, cocktails, and mocktails. Don't miss the festival kitchen, where you can participate in live cooking demonstrations and Q&A sessions with an impressive lineup of celebrity chefs and culinary experts. The event promises fun for the whole family with exciting activities, a scenic picnic area, and continuous entertainment throughout the weekend. 

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  • Event open to holders of Palace, Formal Gardens & Park, tickets between May 24, 2025 and May 26, 2025

Please make sure to wear suitable footwear, sunscreen and insect repellent. Located at the Walled Garden. Entrance is free with a valid Pass or day ticket. Saturday 24th - Monday 26th May 2025

Time 10.00 - 17.00

Dogs allowed but not in the Palace.

  • Palace, Formal Gardens & Park FROM £24.00
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    Blenheim Palace

    BLENHEIM PALACE

    Discover Blenheim Palace—Vanbrugh’s baroque triumph—where gilded state rooms, world-class art, and Capability Brown’s visionary landscapes unfold. Stand beneath the Column of Victory, wander Churchill’s footsteps at the Temple of Diana, and experience a place where history, beauty, and legend converge.

     

    Blenheim Palace

    The gift of a sovereign to the triumphant John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim is a symbol of national achievement and royal satisfaction. The greatest of English palaces (George III understandably remarked that he had 'nothing to equal this'), its Baroque grandeur and state recall palaces abroad, such as the Belvedere in Vienna built a few years later by Prince Eugene, Marlborough's companion in arms, rather than anything in the UK. 

    Blenheim might well have been merely an extravagant pile; that it proved an architecturalmasterpiece was due to the imagination of Sir John Vanbrugh, who had recently at Castle Howard completed his first house, before finising Blenheim in 1722. Its build journey was not an easy one, with Vanbrugh and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough in constant clashes, and in the end they parted ways. From 1764, the landscape architect Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown transformed the park at Blenheim into a naturalistic haven, building a tree-fringed lake at its centre, around which today wonderful walks can be had with views of the palace.

    By the late 19th century, the Marlboroughs’ finances were looking bleak, and a series of paintings, as well as Blenheim’s library were sold to ease the situation. Salvation came in 1895 when the super-rich American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt was encouraged by her ambitious mother to marry Charles ‘Sunny’ Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, and save Blenheim from ruin. While this was successful, the venture came at a different kind of cost: the Marlboroughs’ marriage failed, and ended in 1921. The house was used as a school and then to house MI5 during the Second World War, during which the family stayed on-site, and in 1987, Blenheim was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

     

    In 1712 when going aborad, Marlborough left instructions 'that all persons may see ye whole Building to their Satisfaction' - words that still ring true today. Whilst the Palace remains the family home of the Dukes of Marlborough, Blenheim welcomes visitors annually from January - November.

     

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