Prague Xmas markets breaks

The Prague Christmas markets available everyday, including on Christmas time Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

The markets include brightly embellished wooden huts attempting to sell traditional handicrafts: glassware, jewelry, embroidered lace, wooden toys, metalware, ceramics, scented candles, xmas tree ornaments, hats, gloves and scarves, and puppets and dolls beautifully dressed up in standard costumes.

Site visitors should discover some good what to take home, to enhance their homes or even make use of as xmas gift ideas.

Although Christmas time markets are not just about shopping. Visitors can observe traditional meals becoming made, and sample all method of neighborhood produce. Large hams are roasted on spits, you will find awfully harmful but wonderfully tasty barbequed sausages (klobása), and cakes and pastries prepared in front of you, like 'Trdelník', a hot sugar-coated pastry.

To accompany the food, take to one of the famous Czech beers - Pilsner Urquell, Staropramen and Budvar - or pick from many different hot products. Outdoor xmas shopping is really so much nicer with a cup of hot mulled wine (svařené víno or svařák) inside hand!

The Christmas areas at the Old Town Square also have a creatures steady, in which young ones can stroke sheep, goats and a donkey. And there is a large Bethlehem scene depicting Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus while the Three leaders in a wooden stable.

Most impressive of most may be the xmas tree, delivered in from Česká Lípa, that will be north of Prague. The tree is erected at Old Town Square and draped in a blaze of lights. It really is started up each night around 5pm, and makes a magnificent picture, set against Prague's dark gothic skyline.