Europe’s spectacular Christmas Markets glistening beneath the snow-covered Alps, snow-banked streets lined with festive shops, ancient city squares filled with Christmas stalls brimming with handmade toys and crafted gifts, aromas of freshly baked gingerbread and carolers’ voices filling the chilled air… it’s a magical holiday season that has illuminated European cities for hundreds of years.
Nothing will immerse you in the holiday spirit like an escorted Insight Vacations Christmas Holiday Guided Tour featuring luxury hotels, latest transportation pluses, skilled tour experts and local staff focused on immersing you in holiday spirit and making sure your itinerary complies with all Covid safety guides. You’ll explore bustling holiday markets in cities such as Nuremberg, Vienna, Strasbourg, and Budapest. From hand-blown glass ornaments and handcrafted toys to nutcrackers and dollhouses, you can browse through unique goods festively displayed in endless rows of elaborately- decorated stalls while savoring hot mulled wine, warm gingerbread and merry strains of carolers.
Insight Vacations’ 9-Day Tour of France, Germany and Austria’s Christmas Markets takes you to the Munich Christmas Market, Salzburg’s beneath snowcapped spires, and famed festivities in Innsbruck. Local experts bring Mozart’s history to life during an indulgent Salzburg tasting highlighted with hand-baked gingerbread. Culinary delights continue with a traditional Innsbruck dining experience against the backdrop of a local Tyrolean folk show. Freiburg’s Christmas Market converts the historic city center into a large Christmas village of more than 100 wooden houses brimming with seasonal gifts and crafts. Fairytale scenes of the oldest Christmas Market in France are highlighted by Strasbourg’s 300+ holiday stalls, colorful streams of twinkling lights, dazzling shows and concerts, and its Great Christmas Tree.
Christmas Markets of Austria & Bavaria is an 8-day guided tour of Europe’s Top Christmas Markets in the snowcapped Austrian
Alps with a memorable visit of Vienna’s Schöenbrunn Palace, Salzburg’s 500-year-old Christmas Market, and Munich’s majestic six-story tall Christmas tree. Enjoy a mug or two of Glühwein at the Innsbruck Christmas Market before indulging in an exclusive horse and carriage ride through the romantic streets of Old Town or tour the sparkling world of Swarovski Crystal. In Neuschwanstein, tour of the fairytale castle that reputedly inspired Walt Disney.
Europe’s Merry 8-Day Tour Across Poland, Germany & The Czech Republic highlights Prague, Krakow, and Berlin. Ascend Wawel Hill to the 10th century Renaissance Castle, final resting place of the kings of Poland. Known as the Venice of Poland, Wrocław’s 150 bridges spanning five rivers and twelve islands are breathtaking to behold as is the Baroque grandeur of the Rynek Christmas markets. In the German capital, you can see the remains of the Berlin Wall, painstakingly-restored Reichstag, and soak up the festive magic of the market stalls of Gendarmenmarkt square.
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