Gmunden Christmas Market

Christmas balls. Author and copyright M. R.

Gmunden is a small tourist center in Upper Austria located along the Traunsee lake, halfway between Linz and Salzburg. the most important attractions of the village are the Castle (Landschloss) and the Castle on the Lake (Seeschloss Ort). Gmunden is also known for the production of its famous pottery (Gmundner Keramik). GMUNDEN CHRISTMAS MARKET There are two places where the ...

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Grossarl Christmas Market

Christmas balls. Author and copyright M. R.

Grossarl, an Austrian town located just south of Salzburg at an altitude of over 900 metres, is a renowned holiday resort surrounded by mountains exceeding 2,000 metres. The town developed in the Middle Ages as a market center and still retains this role. GROSSARL CHRISTMAS MARKET The Christmas events in the Großarltal are called Salzburger Bergadvent im Großarltal, in the ...

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Rust Christmas Market

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Small town in Burgenland located along the Neusiedlersee near the border with Hungary, a few tens of kilometers southeast of Vienna. The town is famous for its excellent wine and for being the city of storks, which nest here. Rust has a beautiful, small old town, which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001 (Fertö Cultural Landscape/Neusiedlersee). ...

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Seefeld Christmas Market

Christmas balls. Author and copyright M. R.

Seefeld is a small but important tourist center in the Austrian Tyrol, the town of a few thousand inhabitants is located just 20 km north of Innsbruck and a few kilometers from the German border, located on a plateau 1180 meters above sea level and surrounded by beautiful mountains, it is a paradise for ski lovers. The events that take ...

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Schloss Hof Castle Christmas Market

Christmas balls. Author and copyright M. R.

Schloss Hof is a beautiful Baroque castle located 50 km from Vienna and only 30 km from Bratislava, the castle was built in the eighteenth century at the behest of Prince Eugene of Savoy, purchased by Maria Theresa of Austria it became part of the property of the Habsburgs. The castle still retains its eighteenth-century Baroque garden with pavilions, fountains ...

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Wiener Neustadt Christmas Market

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Wiener Neustadt is an important city in Lower Austria which is located about 50 km south of Vienna. The city was founded between the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century as a new fortified city to defend the eastern border with Hungary. Wiener Neustadt had its period of greatest splendor in the 15th century when ...

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Wels Christmas Market

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Wels is, after Linz, the second largest city in Upper Austria, the city is located along the Traun River a few kilometers southwest of Linz along the road leading to Salzburg. Founded by the Romans with the name of Ovilava, it became an important city in the imperial era, but with the fall of the Roman empire it lost all ...

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Steyr Christmas Market

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Steyr, in Upper Austria, a few kilometers south of Linz, is the city of Advent or of the Child Jesus, in fact tradition has handed down the appearance of the Child Jesus in the Christkindl Sanctuary built in 1708. The town houses the largest nativity scene in the world and the mechanical crib. Worth noting is the historic center of this ...

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Bregenz Christmas Market

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Bregenz, located along the eastern shores of Lake Constance (Bodensee), was originally an ancient settlement of the Celts, later, in the 1st century BC, it was conquered by the Romans who colonized it and founded the city of Brigantium. In the Middle Ages a castle was founded there and in the 15th century, Bregenz became part of the Habsburg domains. ...

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Marburg an der Lahn Christmas Market

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Marburg (Marburg an der Lahn) is a beautiful historic town in Hesse, located along the River Lahn, about 100 km north of Frankfurt am Main. The city developed in the Middle Ages at the crossroads of two important communication routes, the one with Italy and the Alps and the one between Cologne and Prague. Between the 13th and 16th centuries ...

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