Christmas Market in Thuringia’s Capital City of Erfurt
It’s Christmas Time! This is also the chance for me to share some of the Christmas markets I visited and experienced in Europe. It was a solo trip for me when I visited Thüringen, German name for Thuringia. Not really a solo trip because I was with a group of German tourists and most of them are retired ones. Since everybody are busy during this holiday season, I ended up travelling alone but with a group. I never know anyone from that trip but I was glad that some of them are so friendly.
Thuringia is one of the 16 federal states located in the central part of Germany. Its capital city is Erfurt and this is where our trip started among all of the three cities that were included from that trip.
It has been a long time since I planned to go to this city and I am so happy and contented after our trip there. The highlight of our trip was the visit to the Christmas market. This event is one of my favorite in Germany every year.
Christmas Market in Erfurt, Thuringia. View from the Erfurt Cathedral
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This year’s celebration of Erfurt’s Christmas Market takes place from November 27 to December 22,2012. It is the 162nd Erfurt Christmas Market. It is the largest Christmas market in Thuringia. It spreads through out the whole town center but the main part takes place on the Cathedral Square. You can find around 200 booths selling various products from art and crafts to Christmas decors, Jeweleries and local foods and delicacies such as Lubkuchen (ginger bread), Stollen, Glühwein (mulled wine), Thuringer wurst (sausage in Thuringia) and many more. You can enjoy a ferris wheel ride at the Cathedral square.
More Christmas markets stories in these blogs, Travel Snapshots and
Europe Travel Pad.
Christmas Market in Erfurt, Thuringia.
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