So, last weekend, just before Christmas, we decided to go to Dresden to find our Christmas spirit :) And believe me, those two days we spent in Dresden were amazing! Basically, our itinerary was very limited. We decided to mainly focus on visiting Christmas markets.
The oldest Christmas market in Dresden (and the one, we began our trip with) is Striezelmarkt located in Altmarkt (Old Market). Basically, the whole market square is filled with little stalls where you can buy all the Christmas-y things you might need (and some more!). The most popular are, obviously, food stalls. Every Christmas Market in Germany MUST include Bratwurststand and Glühweinstand (stalls with grilled sausages and mulled wine). And trust me, they are busy all the time!
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| Bratwurst (1/2 meter of it, to be exact!) |
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| Hot chocolate with rum |
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| Mulled wine |
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| Mulled wine preparation centre |
Besides food, in Dresden you can buy little wooden ornaments (characteristic for Saxony region), glass ornaments for your Christmas tree (including all the weirdest shapes and ideas, e.g. a cucumber), and classic Christmas sweets - Christstollen (German fruit cake), Pfefferkuchen (gingerbread cookies) and Pflaumentoffel (little figurines made of prunes shaped to look like little chimney sweepers).
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| Handmade toys |
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| Marzipan sweets |
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| Lamps shaped like stars - very characteristic to Dresden |
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| Cheese and ham bread |
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| Gingerbread sweets stall |
Overall experience? Amazing!!! Striezelmarkt (or any Christmas market in Dresden we've visited) was amazing!!! Glühwein is the best thing to keep you warm during winter, and German Bratwurst is a good, hearty meal to keep you going and shopping!
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| Dresden fruit cake manufacture |
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