Dating to 1570, Strasbourg’s is one of Europe’s oldest Christmas markets. The extravaganza includes about 300 chalets spilling across squares and streets in the UNESCO-listed city center.

Though Strasbourg’s Christmas Market these days remains painfully absent of the snow which once imbued it with fairytale atmosphere, the petition is snowballing.

There are Christmas markets, and then there's Strasbourg. I had booked a last-minute trip to this city in eastern France for my Christmas-obsessed 11-year-old daughter, Jane.

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Each year the months flow faster and August arrives on the heels of April, yet I find myself falling into December without plans to attend a European Christmas market. Woe! Ending a year without a ...

Helsinki, Finland. The Christmas market held during the "Pikkujoulu" (Christmas Season) in Finland's medieval capital offers many of the traditional scenes in a Christmas card: snow that usually ...