Just behind this square is the MQ (Museums Quartier) where you can also find a small Christmas market. However, two magnificent museums are at this square so if you want to visit them (The Natural History Museum and the Museum of Art History) you will have to bear with the crowds. The one you should avoid at all cost is the Christmas /New Year village at Maria-Theresien platz because this is where most tourist groups get on/off their buses so it’s almost impossible to walk around this Christmas market. Those are the Old Viennese market at the Freyung and Weihnachtsmarkt am Hof. Last year I also visited two Christmas markets that are perhaps less touristy and more frequented by the locals. In front of Hofburg Stephansplatz Christmas market this year’s mug my first Vienna Christmas market mug from 2005 mug from last year’s Christmas market in Vienna, Austria I’ll just pop in a few delicious pralines (Mozartkugeln). Sadly, I won’t keep this year’s mug because I plan to give it as a gift. One from the Christmas market at the Schönbrunn palace from my first visit to Vienna in 2005 and another one from the City Hall’s market from last year. And I kept the mug too 🙂 I’ve got three now. I had the most delicious apple&cinnamon punch at the Christmas market at Stephansplatz (St.Stephen’s Cathedral square) on Sunday. Castles make a nice background to Christmas stalls, dont’ you think so? There’s a similar regal feel at the Christmas market in front of the former Hapsburg residence Hofburg (Weihnachtsmarkt Michaelerplatz). If you love castles and art then you should visit the Christmas markets at the Schönbrunn palace and/or the one at Belvedere palace. So, don’t be on a diet when you come to Vienna! Apart from all the gorgeous foods&sweets at the Christmas markets there are so many old fashioned traditional pastry &cake shops that you just can’t say no to a piece or two of cake. Trust me, I had the best mulled wine and punch at Vienna’s Christmas markets.Įvery Christmas market has got its own style of the mug so you can drink around and decide to keep the one you like the best or collect them all 🙂 You can eat sausages and you can have soup in the bread or baked potatoes or chestnuts or toasted almonds and many other traditonal foods. If you return the mug you get back 3 euros, but if you decide to keep it ( and it is so nice that you would want to keep it) you actually paid your drink 6.50 euros. The average price of mulled wine is 3.50 euros, but you actually pay it 6 or 7 euros because of the deposit for the mug. You can have hot chocolate, or punch or mulled wine in beautifully decorated Christmassy mugs. Of course, there’s plenty of choice of food and drinks. You can also hear Christmas carols or Christmas stories read by different Austrian celebrities at the stage under the giant Christmas tree. If you have got children then you can take them to participate in the Christmas workshops in the City Hall so they can make marzipan cookies or candles or other stuff for a small fee. Once during the day so you can see the goods at the different stalls (Christmas decorations, chocolates, gingerbread, candles, ceramic ware, leather notebooks, etc.) and once in the evening so you can admire the Christmas lights and decorations which hang from the trees. Beware of the crowds though! You should visit it twice. It celebrates its 30 year anniversary this year.
The biggest and the best is the Christmas market ( Christkindlmarkt) in front of the City Hall. The Christmas markets are scattered around the center of Vienna but there are a few at the outskirts too. What says Christmas better than having a mug of glühwein (mulled wine) in one hand and a giant pretzel in another? Every town in Austria has its own Christmas market but perhaps the most famous ones are in Vienna, the city of the waltz.
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