Austria is hugely popular for a holiday across the Christmas period. But what should you do when you’re here? Here are my top recommendations for visitors in some of magical places ✨
Baroque Upper Belvedere palace has a small lake in front of it. In the evening, when the sky turns twilight blue and the lights go on, the building and its reflection form one of those breathtaking fairytale visions you see in tourism brochures and D...
Belvedere Palace Christmas Market | Food, Shopping Stalls & More
The unique backdrop gives this market a charm of its own, and the delicious aromas are sure to lull all visitors into the seasonal joy. Inside the City Hall on the ground floor, there is an area dedicated to children, where they can learn how to make...
Christmas Markets in Vienna
Vienna fills with the sound of concerts in November and December, and not just the regular special performances designed to offer a taste of light classical Viennese music for visitors.
Advent concerts in Vienna
Vienna’s Christmas lights glitter without being glitzy, with thousands of crystals and giant chandeliers bringing a ballroom atmosphere to the main pedestrianised areas in the centre. Take a walk in the evening, starting from the State Opera House bu...
Vienna's most sparkling Christmas lights
One of the Christmas markets along the Ring is the famous Christkindlmarkt on the Rathausplatz square in front of city hall. The small park surrounding Vienna’s most popular Advent market makes a delightful evening stroll, too, with its hidden displa...
Christmas Market on Rathausplatz - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024)
Amazing experience in such a beautiful place
Winter Market Prater Vienna
The imposing Schönbrunn Palace provides the perfect stage for the Christmas market with numerous stalls arranged in alleyways. Traditional arts and crafts and lovely Christmas decorations through to toys are all part of the exclusive range. Sweet, sa...
Christmas Market Schönbrunn Palace 2024
Authentic customs, living traditions and a touch of romance can be experienced at the Hallstatt Christmas market ✨
Only on Sunday, 8th December: Hallstatt Christmas Market 2024
At the Christmas market on Salzburg’s Cathedral Square, you will discover practically everything you could possibly wish for. This famous Advent market draws countless visitors every Christmas season, and is also very popular with the locals, too. No...
Christmas markets in Salzburg : Advent in Salzburg : salzburg.info
For over twenty years now, the Palace of Hellbrunn and its park have provided a fairytale setting for a magical Christmas scene. The enchanting Christmas market in the south of Salzburg is particularly popular with families.
Hellbrunner Adventzauber : Advent in Salzburg : salzburg.info
At the foot of the Untersberg, the huts of the St. Leonhard Advent market snuggle up against the walls of the pilgrimage church, creating an atmosphere that is both festive and reflective, and pleasantly removed from the bustling streets of downtown ...
Advent Market St. Leonhard : Christmas Markets in Salzburg
Hidden between Getreidegasse and Griesgasse, in the lovingly decorated courtyard of the Sterbräu, is an idyllic Christmas market with art, crafts and winter products.
Stern Advent and Winter Market : Salzburg Christmas Markets
The Christmas Wonder World in St Peter's Stiftskulinarium [ Abbey restaurant] opens in mid-November, bringing a festive and reflective ambience into the heart of Salzburg.
Christmas Wonder World : salzburg.info
Advent tour through the Alpine foothills to Oberndorf under the guidance of a knowledgeable tour guide. There you will experience an atmospheric Christmas mass.
Silent Night Tour : Advent in Salzburg : salzburg.info
Christmas markets likely originated from the old Christmas tree markets where spruce and fir trees were sold as decoration for apartments at Christmas. In Innsbruck, the old-style market has transformed into one of the most attractive Christmas marke...
Christmas markets in Innsbruck
Directly from the city center, you can reach what is probably the most romantic and highest Christmas market in the city in just 8 minutes with the Hungerburgbahn. In addition to all kinds of Christmas souvenirs, arts and crafts and traditional delic...