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10. Belfast Christmas Continental Market
A Traditional Continental Market in Belfast
Belfast one of Europe's biggest tourist destinations will welcome back its wonderful Christmas Continental Market. The fabulous City Hall gardens are transformed into a bustling alpine village providing a great shop around Europe opportunity in the heart of this famous City Centre. The Belfast Continental Market also guarantees a real Irish welcome for all its visitors.
Location
One of Belfast landmark buildings the famous City Hall with its beautiful gardens provides a wonderful backdrop for the Christmas Alpine Village and is situated right in the heart of the City Centre and its wider retail shopping areas. The Market is situated directly alongside the central Bus link and taxi station so transport and travel are never far away.
2010 - Fantastic shopping experience
The shopping experience is everything you would expect from a Continental Christmas Market with over 28 different countries represented selling a great range of fresh and hot food, gifts and crafts. With traders from across Europe featuring some very special traders from Russia and the Lapp area of Finland to the Mad Yanks all the way from the USA and Daniel Aguirre from the foothills of Machu Picchu in Peru with his fantastic Alpacca Knitwear making the long journey to work at this market.
Location
One of Belfast landmark buildings the famous City Hall with its beautiful gardens provides a wonderful backdrop for the Christmas Alpine Village and is situated right in the heart of the City Centre and its wider retail shopping areas. The Market is situated directly alongside the central Bus link and taxi station so transport and travel are never far away.
2010 - Fantastic shopping experience
The shopping experience is everything you would expect from a Continental Christmas Market with over 28 different countries represented selling a great range of fresh and hot food, gifts and crafts. With traders from across Europe featuring some very special traders from Russia and the Lapp area of Finland to the Mad Yanks all the way from the USA and Daniel Aguirre from the foothills of Machu Picchu in Peru with his fantastic Alpacca Knitwear making the long journey to work at this market.
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To warm you
The market features some fantastic refreshment areas such as the Continental Bar and Lavery's traditional Irish Bar where you can hear some great live music or wander around the German Gluwein and Bratwurst Stands where you can watch some great Fire Eating displays as well as enjoying a great glass of warming mulled wine.
And more !!
And if all that shopping, eating and drinking doesn't satisfy you, you can also take the family to visit to Santa in his specially designed Grotto and Magical Forest
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9. Leeds Christkindelmarkt Traditional German Christmas Market
Christkindelmarkt, Leeds - a little piece of Germany in the heart of Leeds City Centre
Set in the stylish civic setting of the award winning Millennium Square, Christkindelmarkt attracts many hundred thousands of visitors to Leeds each year and forms an integral part of the city’s annual events programme.
The market consists of over 40 wooden chalet stalls from authentic German traders providing a wide range of seasonal gift ideas for everyone including; handcrafted toys, jewellery, Christmas cards and festive decorations, speciality foods and traditional German delicacies such as gluhwein, bratwurst sausages, goulash, soups, schnitzels, stollen, gingerbread and candied fruits.
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To enhance the overall visitor experience of the event an adjoining festive funfair provides fun for all the family including a traditional Christmas Carousel and a selection of children's rides and attractions.
The popular Frankfurter-Scheune Festive Meeting Hall and eatery provides specialist food menu including traditional roasts and regular evening musical entertainment.
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8. Bath Christmas Market
The South West's Premier Christmas Shopping Event
Each year, the Abbey Churchyard area – a magical setting in the shadow of Bath Abbey and next to the Roman Baths, right in the centre of the stunning Georgian city’s shopping district, is transformed into a Christmas shoppers’ haven – Bath Christmas Market. The internationally renowned festive gift market is set to go ahead in its tenth year and we are delighted to announce that the Bath Christmas Market will run for an additional 7 days this year - a total of 18 days!
123 traditional wooden chalets full of everything you’ll need to prepare for the perfect Christmas will adorn the streets. If you are looking for something extra special to make your Christmas perfect, Bath Christmas Market is the place you’ll find it, with all of the retailers selling unique, handcrafted items, many of which are made in the local area and the South West, giving the event a very individual identity. Festive food and drink, decorations, jewellery, accessories, crafts and children’s toys are all abundant, and with such a huge range of gift ideas any prospective present buyer will be spoilt for choice – even for those family members who are normally impossible to buy for!
7.Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre
123 traditional wooden chalets full of everything you’ll need to prepare for the perfect Christmas will adorn the streets. If you are looking for something extra special to make your Christmas perfect, Bath Christmas Market is the place you’ll find it, with all of the retailers selling unique, handcrafted items, many of which are made in the local area and the South West, giving the event a very individual identity. Festive food and drink, decorations, jewellery, accessories, crafts and children’s toys are all abundant, and with such a huge range of gift ideas any prospective present buyer will be spoilt for choice – even for those family members who are normally impossible to buy for!
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7.Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre
Something for Everyone at Bury St Edmunds!
Between 25 November and 27 November, the historic centre of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk will be transformed into a wonderful Christmas market with colourful stalls selling local produce and crafts as well as traders from around the UK and mainland Europe, traditional fairground rides and on-stage entertainment.
The Angel Hill area of Bury St Edmunds, with its recently crowned cathedral, medieval Abbey Gate and links with Charles Dickens is the ideal setting for a traditional Christmas Fayre. An added attraction is the town’s nearby cosmopolitan shopping centre with its great mix of famous name stores and independent shops plus cafés and restaurants galore. Visitors on Saturday will also be able to sample the delights of Bury St Edmunds provisions market on the Buttermarket and Cornhill while, this year, the date also coincides with the Cathedral’s Christmas Fair and the Medieval Fayre in Moyse’s Hall Museum. There will be street entertainment on all three days leading up into the town centre and more stalls in our new shopping centre 'arc' There really is something for everyone.
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6.Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market & Craft Fair
Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market & Craft Fair
Enjoy the feel of a small village within the heart of the bustling city centre, with picturesque wooden chalets offering traditional handcrafted gifts, including jewellery, wooden toys, dolls and candles.
Visitors’ senses will be delighted as they are invited to enjoy the Glühwein (German mulled wine), German beers, traditional sausages, meats, sweets, marzipans, breads and pastries.
A truly continental atmosphere is conjured up by the lights, sounds and smells of this unique spectacle that is imported in its entirety and then installed in the beautiful setting of Birmingham Victoria Square
The whole experience will be enhanced with live music every lunchtime and evening from a traditional bandstand.
A truly international welcome and a unique shopping experience await all visitors to the heart of Birmingham
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5.Dickens Christmas Market At Rochester Castle
The Dickens Christmas Market will take place in the beautiful grounds of Rochester Castle, overlooking the River Medway and just a few steps from Rochester’s picture-postcard Victorian High Street, home to the ever-popular Dickensian Christmas Festival, attracting more than 80,000 people over the first weekend in December alone !
Just imagine the setting, the Castle walls illuminated in traditional Christmas colours,trees filled with twinkling fairy lights, the smell of roasted chestnuts and glühwein fills the air and an array of wonderful German style Christmas market huts selling a range of festive gifts and hand-crafted goods. In addition to all of this, street entertainers and Dickensian characters mingle amongst the revellers, whilst carol singers welcome visitors as they enter the market with festive Christmas carols.
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4.Christmas Market at Southbank Centre/London Eye
Christmas Market at Southbank Centre / London Eye
Whilst wandering about, look for and find unusual Christmas presents such as amber & silver jewellery, hand crafted toys, fragile glass ornaments for your Christmas tree, hand tatted laces, tin toys, candles in all shapes and sizes, hand-made ceramics or creative metal design.“Bought by you for special people at a special place.
It will be a typcial German style Christmas Market – app. 60 wooden chalets will be situated between Southbank Centre and London Eye along Queen's Walk.
The carousel in the centre of the Christmas Market offers younger visitors an enjoyable attraction especially for them. Parents can relax with a glass of “Glühwein” (German Mulled Wine) while listening to traditional Christmas music and watching their little ones enjoying a ride on the merry-go-round.
Other seasonal culinary specialties such as the typical German Sausage “Bratwurst” do not need an introduction, gingerbread hearts for your loved ones, roasted almonds and candies to taste the “sweet" side of life or a delicious crepe.
It will be a typcial German style Christmas Market – app. 60 wooden chalets will be situated between Southbank Centre and London Eye along Queen's Walk.
The carousel in the centre of the Christmas Market offers younger visitors an enjoyable attraction especially for them. Parents can relax with a glass of “Glühwein” (German Mulled Wine) while listening to traditional Christmas music and watching their little ones enjoying a ride on the merry-go-round.
Other seasonal culinary specialties such as the typical German Sausage “Bratwurst” do not need an introduction, gingerbread hearts for your loved ones, roasted almonds and candies to taste the “sweet" side of life or a delicious crepe.
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3.A Victorian Festival of Christmas, Portsmouth
Traditional festive fun at A Victorian Festival of Christmas!
A Victorian Festival of Christmas, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Friday 25th - Sunday 27th November 2011
Friday 25th - Sunday 27th November 2011
On the first year of Christmas my true love gave to me… a Festival to make you happy! 12 years on and that is still the case as Portsmouth Historic Dockyard will once again step back in time for the delightful Victorian Festival of Christmas.
This family favourite event set in the atmospheric dockyard surroundings, steeped in history, is the perfect way to start your festive season celebrations and preparations!
Be magically transported into a Dickensian-style bygone era of beautiful snowy streets and experience a taste of days gone by with a magic lantern show, Victorian dancing and a host of colourful characters including chimney sweeps, suffragettes, wenches, Victorian gentry and Fagin with his gang of pickpockets.
Browse for unique gifts and festive food at our Christmas Shopping and Hampshire Fare markets and discover how traditional Victorian recipes were prepared and cooked at our cookery theatre with Susie Carter, winner of ITV’s Britain’s Best Dish 2008.
The young (and young at heart!) will delight in visiting the traditional Father Christmas (dressed in green) and relish the opportunity to take the reins aboard his sleigh. And we are sure Mother Christmas will not be short of helpers to look after the lovable baby reindeer, Bubble and Squeak, as they prepare for Christmas Eve.
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Christmas Markets in Vienna
The Christmas Market season starts on Saturday, 13th November as the Advent season descends upon Vienna once more. During Advent Vienna is a city of nostalgia and romance, concerts and nativity displays and traditional Christmas markets. Classics include the Christmas market in front of City Hall, the traditional Viennese Christmas market on Freyung, the markets at Spittelberg, Am Hof and in front of the church of St. Charles Borromeo (Karlskirche), and . The aromas of candied fruits, cotton candy and other delicacies like Christmas punch and roasted chestnuts wafting around the small wooden market stalls still retain their magical power.The Magic of Advent in Vienna during November and December complements the market in front of City Hall. The adjoining Rathauspark is a place of seasonal inspiration with festively adorned trees, pony-riding, trips on the Christkindl Express and fairytale scenes portrayed in artistically-arranged displays.
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1.Cologne Christmas Markets
Cologne Christmas Market
In December, Cologne Cologne
Experience the Christmas season’s moment of glory at the Christmas Market at Cologne Cathedral. Let yourself be fascinated by diverse arts and crafts, unusual gift ideas and the wide palette of food and drinks on offer.
In the middle of the historic and idyllic Cologne Old Town Cologne
Just a ten minute walk from Neumarkt, the Fairytale Christmas market is situated at Rudolfplatz. The motto of the sixty huts at the Hahnentorburg is the brother’s Grimm tales.
Therefore, this Christmas market delights particularly younger visitors. From Europe ’s largest floating Christmas Market with over forty stalls, you get a truly dream-like view of the Cologne Old town and the Cathedral. The market will take place on the ship “MS Wappen von Köln”.
The Christmas market at Stadtgarten has a far more relaxed village like atmosphere.
The new maritime Christmas Market presents itself in picturesque scenery directly on the Rhine with about 80 stalls in white pagoda tents with roof peaks appearing like ship sails. High-quality products and art craft, dishes and drinks from all over the world as well as a coloured programme with pirates, Shanty and Christmas performances invite for a stay with a tasty mulled wine.
Let yourself be enticed by the Christmas magic and visit the festive holy activities in the Rhine metropolis. A great number of events will make your stay in Cologne perfect: Exhibitions, musicals, opera or concerts – Cologne
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