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5 days agoFact check: Has Germany canceled Christmas markets in 2025? DW 10/25/2025
All German Christmas markets are not canceled for 2025; most will open in late November and over 2,500 markets operate annually.
You know Christmas is coming when Strasbourg gets all festive. The north-eastern French city has hosted Christmas markets since around 1570, and has become pretty good at them down the centuries it's the reason the city brands itself the Christmas capital of France'. This year's celebrations kick off on November 26th and run to December 24th. As usual, hundreds of chalets host local artisans selling Christmas gift ideas on the Grande Ile, while the streets will be verily festooneth festooneth, we tell you with illuminations celebrating a very Alsatian Christmas.
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