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he festive custom dates back centuries, all the way to
the Middle Ages, when towns and villages
throughout the region organized winter gatherings
to celebrate the beginning of Advent. Today, these markets
are a step back in time, offering an atmospheric antidote to
more modern Christmas events with aromas of gingerbread
and mulled wine, the sounds of carolers, lots of twinkling
lights and hundreds of wooden stalls overflowing with
handcrafted items.
ENDURING TRADITION
Each market has its own personality and history, too. In
Germany, records indicate that Nuremberg's
Christkindlesmarkt was probably founded in the 16th
century and had become so popular that, a hundred years
later, in 1616, a local parish minister canceled Vespers
because everyone was at the market shopping for Christmas
gifts. Though one of Europe's most popular markets
- more than 2 million people visit each year - the
Nuremberg market still sells locally-made food and craft
items, including the city's unique prune men dolls that are
crafted from dried prunes, figs and walnuts. Locally
produced goods are also the norm in Passau, where St.
Stephen's, the city's gorgeous Baroque cathedral, creates a
dramatic backdrop for this smaller, easy-to-navigate - but
well curated - collection of stalls. In Vienna, Austria,
markets range from the hip, DJ-powered outdoor winter
market that takes over the city's Museum Quarter each
December to the shops within Spittelberg's meandering
warren of cobbled streets and, grandest of them all,
Christkindlmarkt on the Rathausplatz, a massive open-air
extravaganza that's home to more than 150 vendors, as well
as nightly choir and band performances, an ice skating rink
and wondrous light displays.
LARGER SHIPS
Anita B. Flippin, branch manager at the AAA Durham,
North Carolina, office, took her sister on a Christmas
market-themed cruise through the region aboard
AmaWaterways' AmaMagna. Christened in 2019, the new
ship is twice as wide as any other ship sailing the Danube
- or any other European river. Anita found that the ship's
AMAWATERWAYS
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