Nuremburg Christkindlesmarkt

This past weekend, Riccardito, Noelia, Basti, some colleagues of Riccardito, and I went to Nuremburg (Nürnburg) to see what has been described as the most beautiful of Christmas Markets. It was also a good opportunity to visit the city as none of us had been there before. 

Pretty!

The main market is held at Hauptmarkt, in front of the Frauenkirche.

Cute little stalls selling all kinds of delicious foods and weird stuff.

The Nuremburg Schoener Brunner - pretty fountain!

In the markets, I ate a roll with Nürnburger Bratwursts (smaller than usual bratwurst), a roll with prawns, a elisenlebkuchen, 1/2 a crepe with nutella and strawberries, and a mug of glühwein. After all that, I was happy for us to take a walk around the town! Nuremburg has a fairly significant role in the history of Western Europe. We didn't make it to the Nazi Rally Grounds, but we did walk up to the castle, unofficial seat of the Holy Roman Empire.

And it really does look like a mediaeval castle!

I like to keep prisoners in this tower

Like Munich, Nuremburg was heavily bombed and about 90% destroyed, but was rebuilt to resemble the pre-war city as much as possible. 

St Sebaldus. We took from feuerzangenbowle here. It was awesome.

As the sun set and the lights came on, we then really started to see why the Market was considered so beautiful.

The Schoener Brunnen being even more schoen when lit up!

Noelia checks out some tree ornaments

Schoen!

But we all agreed - the prettiest section was actually the Kinder Weihnachtsmarkt, which had really cute decorations on top of the stalls and a number of antique rides for the kids.

 

Like this Riesenrad (Ferris Wheel)

And this absolutely gorgeous Carousel.

Seriously, that's beautiful (and wasted on kids).

The Nuremburg Christmas Markets run annually during advent, but a word of warning. While the train ride varies from a 1.5-2.5 hours direct from Munich, get to the train station early or you'll end up sitting in the aisle like we did.