Johanna LEHN AFP Dec 22, 2025 1 hr ago 0 Visitors crowd the Christmas market on the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin Visitors crowd the Christmas market on the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin Saudi defendant Taleb ...

An impulsive decision in late November by my wife Cindy and I to explore German Christmas markets found us in Berlin visiting ...

Why Are German Christmas Markets So Popular? You don’t have to be German to love traditional German Christmas Markets. The twinkling lights, merry music, hot mulled wine and tidy wooden vendor stalls ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It all started in the Middle Ages, when sometime in the 1400s German Catholics decided to turn their everyday food ...

The Christmas market in Heidelberg, western Germany - Copyright AFP/File Daniel ROLAND The Christmas market in Heidelberg, western Germany - Copyright AFP/File Daniel ...

Christmas markets -- long considered the lively heart of Advent in Germany -- are facing new uncertainty this year as towns grapple with tighter security rules and rising public anxiety. The ...

- Attacks and backlash - German Christmas markets, a centuries-old tradition, are hosted by nearly every town and city and consist of stalls with merchants selling gifts and decorations as well as ...

Security has been tightened at German Christmas markets after recent deadly attacks. But if some online videos were to be believed, they've become barbed-wire fortresses guarded by armoured personnel ...

Wooden huts are glittering with golden fairylights as groups of friends gather in woolly hats, warming their hands on mugs of mulled wine. Signs written in German are dotted about - Glühwein (mulled ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for common security standards to be applied to Christmas markets across the country, in light of deadly attacks in recent years. "We naturally support any ...