Celebrate Romeo and Juliet at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, the oldest free festival in the United States. Get together with 15,000 Shakespearian festival-goers that know the event as Shakespeare in the Park, a summer cultural event featuring live theatrical Shakespeare performances.
Watch the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, a thoroughbred race track in Louisville renowned the world over. The annual event takes place on a one and a quarter-mile track for a race known as the "The Most Exciting Two Minutes of Sports" and is steeped in traditions like drinking ice cold Mint Juleps and women wearing one-of-a-kind fancy hats. The event is one of the most well-known attractions in the city.