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Best Places to Celebrate Christmas

Best Places to Celebrate Christmas

While Christmas is brewing, many people must be wondering about the best places to celebrate this jolly event this year. Indeed, any old city can hang up some light downtown and call it a celebration… but there are few places around the world which do Christmas better than any other place. Want a Christmas you will never forget? Travel to either of these three places to have fun on the 25th of December!

Vienna, Austria
Vienna breathes Christmas cheer, and makes the holiday season the best time of the year to travel to this magical city. The twinkling lights are up, hanging on every single building and tree, while the city’s Christmas markets are lively. Enter the marketplace and you shall find the best hand-crafted gifts, and the best food! The must try delicacies of the food markets are lebkuchen (gingerbread), waffles, bratwurst, maroni and glühwein (mulled wine). Live the winter season to the fullest by going ice skating in the massive rink at Rathausplatz plaza, which is all lightened up by Christmas lights. Plus, the plaza presents to you the largest ever Christmas market, which consists of over 140 vendors. Don’t forget to grab your tickets to the Christmas Mass at the Hofburgkapelle chapel which annually features the Vienna Boys Choir, who are world famous.

New York City, USA
For almost every American, the beginning of the holiday season is marked with the lightning of the huge Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center Plaza- New York’s heart. Many locals and tourists proceed to the plaza in crowds, as it is the best place to ice skate on the rink found just below Prometheus statue. They are also mostly attracted to that part of the city because of the massive Christmas tree adorned with more than 30,000 LED lights. If you are looking for the perfect gifts for the kids, FAO Schwarz is the haven! Macy’s Santaland, the winter wonderland, is the top spot to enjoy happy moments with your family. This arena is filled with toy trains, holiday scenes and Christmas trees.

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Nuremberg, Germany
The most popular attraction for travellers during the holiday season is the Christmas market. And, the most epic market of all time is that of Nuremberg. This large market is made of more than 200 vendors which sell traditional goods, in wooden stalls. This market is found in Hauptmarkt Square in the city’s Old Quarter. This place is most famous for ornaments, jewelleries, tree angels, gingerbread and mulled wine. This shopping palace attracts over 2 million visitors each year. While wandering around the stalls, you can awaken the child in you by riding the wooden Ferris wheel, carousel or steam train! The best travel souvenirs you can pick from that market are mulled wine mug or Little Prune People (figures made from prunes). And to please your taste buds, you better try potato pancakes, Nuremberg sausages and roasted almonds.