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Market Mug of the Week, 2025: Dresden

Check out our favorite “Christmas Market Mug of the Week” from Dresden, Germany, sent in by Heidi Burkhardt Robinson and learn more about the market. 7 weeks until Christmas!

Visit the Stuttgart Christmas Market

Enjoy light sculptures all around the city, a wooden train and the atmosphere of one of the oldest Christmas markets, the Stuttgart Christmas market.

Tollwood Winter Festival

If you’re looking for a Christmas market alternative this winter, enjoy music, a fire show, New Year’s Eve party and so much more at the Tollwood Winter Fest.

Visit the Kaiserslautern Christmas Market

Enjoy the cozy Kaisesrslautern Christmas market (Lautrer Weihnachtsmarkt) with a mug of warm glühwein and check out the Fruchthalle and Edith Stein House for unique Christmas gift ideas.

Visit the Nuremberg Christmas Market

Plan ahead for one of the oldest and most famous Christmas markets in Germany! Nuremberg Christmas market has so much to offer including the largest Feuerzangenbowle in the world!

Dragon’s Teeth and Doom Turtle Tanks

Join Zuko and Baymax on a unique hike through Lambsborn, Germany, as they explore the remnants of the Siegfried Line (Germany’s WWII antitank barrier) and uncover the story behind the “Dragon’s Teeth” and the heaviest American tank, the “Doom Turtle.”

Europe’s memorial stumbling stones

Small brass cobblestones across Europe form a massive memorial to former citizens who were victims of Nazi persecution. Each tells the story of an individual life.

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