This year, Pflasterspektakel Linz will be celebrated from July 21 to 23. This festival — which translates to ‘pavement spectacle’ in German — draws together dancers, mimes, musicians, high-wire walkers, clowns, fire twirlers, acrobats, and other performers that defy categorization and occasionally gravity for three days each July. Pflasterspektakel converts three days in summer into a type of citywide ‘Cirque du Soleil.’Hauptplatz — a vast and beautiful city plaza dominated by the 60-foot-tall Trinity Column — is the core of it all — which, incidentally, honors the victims of the Black Plague. More than 200,000 people braved the inclement weather in Linz to see what these colorfully costumed artists have to offer.