Iconic Christmas Markets
Iconic Christmas Markets are plentiful and are on full display in Budapest’s Vörösmarty Square, where all products sold in the market are guaranteed as traditionally handmade. Vienna has its impressive Christmas Markets that seem to majestically appear around every corner and Nuremberg’s festive Christkindlesmarkt, is the largest and oldest Christmas Market in Germany. Sparkling lights, the festive sounds of caroling, enticing smells of hot-mulled wine, roasted chestnuts, and sweet treats of every kind. These timeless wonders are a feast for all your senses.
Christmas Markets on the Danube
Experience timeless holiday traditions and elegant pageantry in four countries—Hungary, Austria and Germany. Let iconic capital cities — Budapest and Vienna — decked in holiday finery with glittering Christmas trees illuminated by thousands of lights, bells pealing from cathedral towers and children dressed as angels singing Christmas carols, dazzle you. Wander the stalls of Europe’s most traditional and enchanting Christmas Markets shopping for handcrafted gifts, sipping hot mulled wine and inhaling the fragrance of gingerbread and roasted chestnuts. Cherish all the glory and magic of the season in grand European style as you cruise along the Danube during this festive time of the year.