Dresden Striezelmarkt 2024 | Germany

The Dresden Striezelmarkt is regularly voted the favourite Christmas market in German-speaking countries. The 590th edition will take place in 2024 making it the oldest Christmas market in Germany. This visitor magnet attracts visitors with superlatives such as the world's largest 14.61-metre-high step pyramid from the Ore Mountains what is probably the world's largest walk-in candle arch and a free daily Christmas cultural programme for young and old.

A real heartbreaker: the popular plum potato. Nobody can resist the wrinkly little figure when it smiles mischievously at the other person from under its top hat. The loving craftsmanship can be seen in every millimetre of this fruity doll on wooden legs.

And anything but particularly large - but all the more romantic: the historic Ferris wheel. A ride on it is like travelling back in time when you can look happily over the glittering huts of the Striezelmarkt with candy floss in your hand the smell of roasted almonds in your nose and a barrel organ playing softly from somewhere.

Event Details:

Opening hours

27 November (opening) - 4 pm to 9 pm

28 November to 23 December - daily 10 am to 9 pm

24 December - 10 am to 2 pm

Striezelmarkt Highlights:

• November 27 2024: Opening ceremony of the Christmas market
• November 30 2024: Advent Calendar Festival
• December 1 2024: Day of the Church (Kreuzkirche)
• December 7 2024: Dresdner Stollenfest
• December 8 2024: Gingerbread Festival
• December 14 2024: Pyramid Festival
• December 15 2024: Day of Christmas crafts
• December 21 2024: Festival of the Choirs
• December 22 2024: Dresden Striezel Children's Festival

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