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The Most Fabulously Festive Cities from Around the World

The Most Fabulously Festive Cities in the World LONDON United Kingdom 17 Ham 01 12 Kingston uplon Thames White City 20 10 Poplar Shepherd's Bush 14 07 16 Southwark 11 15 Lambeth ANNUAL PERFORMANCES/EVENTS DECKED OUT TREES TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS TREATS 01 St. Pancras Station Lego Tree 02 Trafalgar Square 03 Claridge's Hotel 13 Nutcracker by English National Ballet 14 Southbank Centre Winter Festival Theatre: Dickens Abridged, Once Upon a Christmas, Disney on Ice GORGEOUS LIGHT Holiday Pantomime Shows Christmas Pudding DISPLAYS 04 Oxford Street Christmas Lights (750,000+ LEDS) 2 05 Regent Street Lighting Ceremony ICE SKATING Roasted Chestnuts $4 15 Natural History Museum Ice Rink 3 16 EyeSkate at London Eye 17 Hampton Court Palace Ice Rink HOLIDAY FAIRS & Christmas Cake with Marzipan 18 Hyde Park Winter Wonderland MARKETS 19 Somerset House Ice Rink 20 Tower of London Ice Rink 06 Spirit of Christmas Fair (650+ stalls) 07 Christmas Market on the South Bank 08 Christmas Fair at Chelsea Physic Garden 09 Spitalfields Winter Festival CHRISTMAS MASS Mulled Wine 10 Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park 11 Belgravia Christmas Sunday Market 12 Kingston Christmas Market 21 Westminster Abbey Midnight Mass LONDON'S GUINNESS RECORDS 2009 2007 2007 2 HR 55 MIN 50 SEC 71M LARGEST FASTEST MARATHON DRESSED CHRISTMAS LARGEST ADVENT CALENDAR AS SANTA Paul Simons STOCKING 32.56M St Pancras Station DID YOU KNOW? ICONIC FILMS SET HERE 41% loveactually MORE DRINK DEC OLIVER TWIST In December, Britons drink 41% more than the annual monthly average 1843 WAS INVENTED One of his original Christmas cards SOLD BY SIR HENRY COLE Chief Organiser of the Great Exhibition, pioneer of the Penny Post and founder of the V&A Museum that he sent to his 1st The first grandmother RECENTLY SOLD AT COMMERCIAL AUCTION FOR CHRISTMAS CARD £22,500 PARIS France Bobigny 16 Nanterre 18th arr. Noisy-le-Sec Neuilly-sur-Seine 17th am. 10 19th arr. 10th arr. 04 03 20th ar. 15th an. 14 06 Mortreuil 23 18 16th amr. 08 Boukgne-Billancourt 15 05 14th arr. 13th arr. Issy-es-Moulineaux Montrouge $. +) DECKED OUT TREES HOLIDAY FAIRS & CHRISTMAS MASS MARKETS 01 Galeries Lafayette Dept. Store (600,000 lights and 120 giant crystals in 2012) 02 Place de la Concorde 22 L'église de la Madeleine 25 Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre 13 Saint Germain des Prés Village of Father Christmas 14 The European Christmas 26 Notre-Dame de Paris Village Trocadéro on Ice' 15 Montparnasse Christmas Village 16 The Christmas Market at La Défense 17 Italie 2 Christmas Market GORGEOUS LIGHT 18 Fééries d'Auteuil DISPLAYS Christmas Market TRADITIONAL 19 Haut-Montmartre CHRISTMAS TREATS 03 Champs Elysées 04 Avenue Montaigne 05 Bercy Village 06 Place Vendôme Christmas Market 07 Forum des Halles 08 Viaduc des Arts ANNUAL PERFORMANCES/EVENTS 09 Rue Saint-Honoré Buche de Noel 10 Église Saint-Georges de la Villette Nativity Scene 20 Christmas Concerts at La Sainte Chapelle 2 21 Christmas Concert at St. Germain Des Prés Punitions (French 22 Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' at L'église de la Madeleine Shortbread Cookie) ICE SKATING 23 Gospel Christmas Concert at Église des Billettes 03 Champs Elysées 11 Hotel de Ville 24 Christmas Dinner at the Moulin Rouge 12 Grand Palais des Glaces NEW YORK United State of America Englewood Riverdale DECKED OUT TREES 01 Rockefeller Center (30,000 LED lights) 02 NY Botanical Garden 03 American Museum of Natural History 02 Leenia Momis Hoig hts Fort Lae Brom 04 Met Museum of Art 05 Bryant Park 06 Madison Square Park 07 New York Stock Exchange 08 Washington Square Park Ridgefield Cliffside Park Upper Manhattan 24 11 North Bergen GORGEOUS LIGHT Manhattan DISPLAYS 09 Winter Garden Holiday Lights (about 100,000 lights) 16 21 Union City 10 Dyker Heights 15 11 Charles A. Dana Discovery Center 09 Astoria 20 05 13 23 Woodside $4 12 Long sland City Sunset Park HOLIDAY FAIRS & Bay Ridge 10 MARKETS 05 Holiday Shops at Bryant Park 12 Grand Central Holiday Fair 13 St. Bartholomew's Gift Shops Williamsbung 14 Union Square Holiday Market 15 Holiday Market at Columbus Circle 16 Winter's Eve at Lincoln Square 17 Brooklyn Holiday Bazaar 18 FAO Schwarz Toy Store 19 Macy's Santaland ANNUAL PERFORMANCES/EVENTS TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS TREATS 20 Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular 21 Handel's 'Messiah' ICONIC FILMS SET HERE at Carnegie Hall 22 The Nutcracker at Lincoln Center Miracle on 34* Street 23 A Christmas Carol on display at Morgan Library Apple Pie 24 Paul Winter's Winter Solstice Celebration Harry Sally. When 25 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade met Eggnog elf HOME ALONE2 Gingerbread Cookies SCRO O GED From 01 NOV - 25 DEC SERENDIPITY Candy Canes NOEL 37 MILLION HOLIDAY CARDS are sold daily in the US alone Latkes MONTRÉAL Canada Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie Le Plateau- St Helen's ksland Mont-Royal 20 LaMuyne 02 Cote-Des-Neiges- 15 Notre-Dame-De-Grace Westmount DECKED OUT TREES ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MASS PERFORMANCES/EVENTS 01 Place Ville-Marie 14 Notre-Dame Basilica 02 Musée Des Beaux Arts 04 'Les Féeries' Old Port Seasonal Festival 13 New Year's Eve Grand Ball at Place Jacques-Cartier 14 Les Stars Chantent Noël at Notre-Dame Basilica GORGEOUS LIGHT 15 Choral Concert TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS TREATS at St. Joseph's Oratory DISPLAYS 16 The Nutcracker at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens 03 La Maison Ogilvy's (window display) 04 'Les Féeries' Old Port 17 Santa Claus Parade on Saint Catherine Street Seasonal Festival 18 Défilé de Noël on Saint-Hubert Street Tourtière $4 2 HOLIDAY FAIRS & ICE SKATING MARKETS Vacherin Mont d'Or 04 old Port Skating Rink 05 The Salon des Metiers d'Arts 19 The Fantaisie des Fêtes at Place Bonaventure at Atrium Le 1000 06 The Nutcracker Market at Palais des Congress 07 Mile End Christmas Fair 08 Noël sur l'Avenue on Mont-Roval Avenue 09 École Rudolf Steiner Christmas Fair (+40 artisans/vendors) 10 Winter Fair of the Artisan Elves Indoor Ice Rink 20 Parc du Mont-Royal Galettes des Rois at St. Michael's Church 11 Puces Pop Christmas bazaar 1898 at St-Enfant-Jésus DID YOU KNOW? 12 Recycling Artists Eco Fair at Biosphere (50 exhibitors) (68% Chances that Montreal has a White Christmas THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD STAMP WAS RELEASED IN CANADA IN 1898 historically BRUGES Belgium GORGEOUS LIGHT DISPLAYS Langarel 01 Market Square Sint-Kruis $4 HOLIDAY FAIRS & 04 MARKETS 02 Bruges Christmas Market 03 Simon Stevin Square 06 ANNUAL 08 PERFORMANCES/EVENTS 66 Though much 04 The Scratch Christmas Choir Minnewater smaller than the other cities on at Sint-Jakobskerk 07 05 Magical Winter Moments with Flowers at Oud Sint-Jan our list, Bruges' intimate cobbled Kanaal van Gent naar Gostend 06 December Dance Festival at Concertgebouw Brugge lanes, mediaeval canals and fairytale architecture give it an incomparable holiday charm.99 07 Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival at Stationsplein ICE SKATING 01 Market Square Ice Rink TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS TREATS 4 CHRISTMAS MASS Speculoos Honey Waffle Biscuits 08 Midnight Mass at Begijnhof 5 Seasonal Ales Local Chocolates DID YOU KNOW? 6. Jenever Chocolate Sinterklaas Horse-drawn carriage rides are a popular seasonal fixture in Bruges VIENNA Austria Althangnund Hernals Alsergrund 15 Josefstadt 14 Neubau 17 19 Landstraße Rudolfsheim-Fonfhaus Mariahilf 13 Weden Margareten $4 DECKED OUT TREES HOLIDAY FAIRS & MARKETS TRADITIONAL 01 ChristkindImarkt CHRISTMAS TREATS 02 Schönbrunn Palace 02 Christmas and New Year's Market at Schönbrunn Palace 04 Christkindlmarkt at City Hall (140+ vendors) 13 Christmas Village at Belvedere Palace Lebkuchen 14 Maria-Theresien Platz Holiday Village GORGEOUS LIGHT DISPLAYS 15 Christmas Village in the Former General Hospital 03 Graben Chandeliers 16 Christmas Market 04 City Hall Square at Spittelberg 17 Divina Art Christmas Market 05 Kohlmarkt Honey Waffle Biscuits 06 Wollzeile 07 Mariahilfer Straße on Karlsplatz 08 Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring 09 Universitätsring 10 Rathaus Maroni 4 tb ANNUAL PERFORMANCES/EVENTS 04 International Advent Caroling in City Hall CHRISTMAS MASS 11 Vienna Boys' Choir at Hofburgkapelle (each Sunday) 18 Enchanted Rathauspark Glahwein 11 Hofburgkapelle Chapel with Vienna Boys' Choir 12 St. Stephen's Cathedral 18 Christkindl Crafts Workshop 19 More than 300 balls are thrown during holiday season at Opera Ball and Bonbon Ball 5 7 Weihnachtspunsch DID YOU KNOW? Vienna hosts about Vienna has 1,861,000 20* overnight visitors each December official advent markets 2,000,000* The first snowglobe was patented in bulbs decorated Vienna's shopping district in 2011 Vienna RESOURCES www.austria.info www.examiner.com www.history.uk.com www.maps.google.com www.montreal.com www.nymag.com www.nytimes.com www.past.theweathernetwork.com www.telegraph.co.uk www.christkindimarkt.at www.classictic.com www.timeout.com www.corporate.hallmark.com www.eatthelove.com www.en.parisinfo.com www.viennareview.net www.visitlondon.com www.wikipedia.com tinyprints. www.tinyprints.com 4V 2] 4- 14.97M

The Most Fabulously Festive Cities from Around the World

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December is the month when cities throughout the world reach their pinnacle of picturesque charm. Not only do the winter holidays bring out countless highlights of the cultures who celebrate them—f...

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