German Christmas markets are some of the most spectacular in Europe. Local bazarchik traditionally executed in the medieval spirit. On the streets offers a taste of burning mulled wine, spicy sausages and cakes with ginger. Delight the eye toy deer, all kinds of balls and the beautiful Christmas tree. Most picturesque fairs held in Nuremberg and Cologne. In the latter the main Christmas market takes a background Gothic cathedral. In countless stalls you can buy toys, "The Nutcracker" - special nutcrackers, a variety of sweets.
Austria
Christmas on the streets of this European state no less fascinating: local area, like sparrows flock to dealers, and hanging in the air the aroma of hot punch and pastries. All Austrian fairs operate on a strict schedule. Stalls and tents appear in the streets at the end of November and the morning of 24 December, they cease to work. December 25 you can not find a trace of the holiday where a few hours ago noisy street vendors and crowds of tourists. Of course, the best bazaar opens in Vienna. There are a lot of tents, which are filled with Christmas decorations, a variety of handicrafts, leather accessories, glassware, original candles. Pleasing and stalls with food, biscuits wild boar meat, hot sausage, incredible Viennese apple strudel.
France
One of the main Christmas markets of France is located in Paris, right on the Champs-Elysees. Stalls here are drawn multiple rows directly along one of the main avenues of Paris, and they carried a brisk trade in the most representative national products and souvenirs of different countries of the European Union. The result is a kind of international Christmas market where you can taste and sausages from Spain and Dutch cheese, and Belgian waffles, and, of course, the famous French wine.
Czech Republic
Under Czech Christmas turns into a fairy tale: balconies of houses draped a blanket of snow, thousands of pipes slowly curls of smoke. Wandering through the local streets, sometimes it seems that from the nearest lane is about to run out Gerda to go on a dangerous adventure in search of his brother Kai. Here in this surroundings and employs local fairs. The most important of them takes place on the Old Town Square. Here you can buy handmade puppets, a legendary Bohemian crystal, wooden toys, decorative ceramics. Also at the fair sell live carp, dumplings, lollipops on a stick, mead. To keep warm during a fascinating Christmas shopping, the Czechs have a drink offering of its national spiced liqueur.