Fixed Luna Parks

On this website you can find information about all the Luna Parks in the World.

Below you will find a list of all the fixed Luna Parks, followed by some general history about the Luna Parks. You can see a list of all the travelling Luna Parks here and all the closed Luna Parks here.

Europe

Name Location In operation Status
Luna Park Cap d’Agde France, Cap d'Agde ? to present Active
Lunapark Fréjus France, Fréjus ? to present Active
Luna Park La Palmyre France, La Palmyre 2000 to present Active
Luna Park Nice France, Nice ? to present Active
Luna Park Aidonakia Greece, Athens ? to present Active
LunEur Italy, Rome 1953 to 2008 and 2016 to present Active
Luna Park Milan Italy, Milan 1965 to present Active
Luna Park Skopje (Луна Парк) North Macedonia, Skopje ? Active
Lunapark Sowiński (Władysławowo) Poland, Władysławowo 2006 to present Active
Luna Park Moscow Russia, Moscow 1993 to present Active
Luna Park L’Escala Spain (Catalonia), L'Escala ? to present Active
Lunapark Nazilli, Aydın Turkey, Nazilli 2004 to present Active
Luna Park Odessa Ukraine, Odessa ? to present Active
Luna Park Funfair United Kingdom, Scarborough ? to present Active
Luna Park London United Kingdom, London ? Active

North America

Name Location In operation Status
Luna Park Mexico City (La Feria Chapultepec Mágico) Mexico , Mexico City 1964 to present Active
Luna Park Coney Island USA, New York City 1903 to 1944 and 2010 to present Active

South America

Name Location In operation Status
Luna Park Buenos Aires (Stadium Luna Park) Argentina, Buenos Aires 1932 to present Active
Lunapark Lecherias (Parque de Atracciones Plaza Mayor) Venezuela , Lecherias, Anz. 2003 to present Active

Asia

Name Location In operation Status
Luna Park Yerevan Armenia, Yerevan 2000 to present Active
Luna Park, Bombay India, Mumbai ? Active
Luna Park Tel Aviv Israel, Tel Aviv 1970 to present Active
Luna Park Abha Saudi Arabia, Abha 2004 to present Active
Alanya Lunapark Turkey, Alanya 2004 to present Active
Bostanci Lunapark Turkey, Bostancı 2002 to present Active
Lunapark Mersin Turkey, Mersin 2000 to present Active
Lunapark Nazilli, Aydın Turkey, Nazilli 2004 to present Active
Luna Park Sincan Turkey, Sincan 2000 to present Active

Oceania

Name Location In operation Status
Luna Park Melbourne Australia, Melbourne, Victoria 1912 to present Active
Luna Park Sydney Australia, Sydney 1935 to 1979, 1980 to 1988, 1995 to 1996, 2004 to present Active

Africa

Name Location In operation Status

History

Luna Park is a name for funfairs and amusement parks that has been in use since 1901 when the first Luna Park opened in Rexford, New York, near Schenectady.

The second Luna Park opened on Coney Island in 1903. This is considered as the “original” Luna Park and also the most famous of them all. The origin of the park’s name is uncertain. One theory is that is was named after an airship that was one of the main attractions of the park. Another theory is that it was named after one of the founders’ sister.

In 1905 a roller coaster engineer by the name of Frederick Ingersoll opened two new Luna Parks in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. In 1907 a fourth Luna Park was opened in Seattle, Washington, by Charles Loof who was also one of the founders of the first Luna Park on Coney Island.

Later on Frederic Ingersoll opened an additional 44 Luna Parks around the world. He thereby created the first chain of Luna Parks in the world. In order to distinguish them from the other Luna Parks which he had no connected to, he chose to rename them to “Ingersoll’s Luna Parks” for a short period of time. When he died in 1927 most of his parks closed. This event did however not stop the usage of the name in future parks.

After the Second World War independent showmen started to open amusement parks at fixed locations that was only open during the summer. The showmen was the owners of their individual attractions and gathered in order to attract more clients. Most of these parks opened around the mediterranean and atlantic coast areas and where called Luna Park. The main differences between these Luna Parks and the first ones, where 1) that these new parks where owned by several independent owners as opposed to one company, and 2) that the new parks where not amusement parks with attractions, but rather mobile funfairs. 

Today, the term Luna Park (sometimes also spelled Lunapark) signifies “funfair” or “amusement park” in many languages, a bit the same way the word tivoli is associated with funfairs, gardens and movie theaters. In Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish and Hebrew the direct meaning of the word Lunapark can be translated to “amusement park”.