The Canadian Tulip Festival is held annually in May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival is the world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips, with attendance of over 650,000 visitors annually. Displays of tulips are planted throughout the city, and the largest display of tulips is found in Commissioners Park on the shores of Dow's Lake, and along the Rideau Canal with 250,000 tulips planted there alone. Millions of tulips set the stage for a celebration of authentic art, cultural, historic, culinary and family tulip experiences at various official venues across the capital.