Sample cookies, savor punch, select gifts – Vienna’s Advent markets get visitors in the mood for Christmas. And the best way to celebrate the turn of the year is on the New Year’s Trail in the old town.

During Advent, Vienna’s most attractive squares make way for romantic Christmas markets where the aroma of yuletide baking and hot punch fills the air…

Viennas finest Christmas markets:

Vienna Christmas Market
November 14-Decemeber 24, 2009
www.christkindlmarkt.at

Christmas Village on Maria-Theresien-Platz
November 18-December 24, 2009
www.weihnachtsdorf.at

Old Viennese Christmas Market, Freyung
November 28-December 23, 2009
www.altwiener-markt.at

Culture and Christmas Market in front of Schönbrunn Palace
www.weihnachtsmarkt.co.at

Christmas Village at the Belvedere Palace
November 20.-December 23, 2009
www.weihnachtsdorf.at

New Year’s Trail
December 31, 2009
www.wien-event.at