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The advent calendar



The Advent calendar helps children be patient in their wait for Christmas. Every morning from December 1st to 24th, children open a window of their Advent calendar and discover a picture of a snow-covered landscape, Father Christmas or chocolate. Initially, Advent calendars were ...


Arts and crafts, entertainment and demonstrations


No self-respecting Christmas in Alsace can do without the objects and items made by the craftsmen who live and work across the entire length of the region.


These varied handicrafts are sold in Christmas markets, which are a unique shopping opportunity ...

Arts and crafts, entertainment and demonstrations

Christmas Stories and Shows


Advent in Alsace has the particularity, which is probably unique, of being a time when a number of characters contribute to the wonderful atmosphere that prevails in the region. These characters can be seen at events and Christmas markets or at evening gatherings. Their presence ...

Christmas Stories and Shows

Exhibitions


Exhibitions

Christmas log


Once blessed at the midnight mass, the Yule log is burned in the fireplace; it is the Brandewidaowa. The following morning, the ashes are carefully collected and preserved, for they are said to be blessed with many virtues. Scattered before the Epiphany in fields and gardens, ...

Christmas log

Blown glass balls


 

In Alsace, glass is made in the north, in Meisenthal. The art, which reached its peak in the early part of the last century, had found itself an ideal home with just the right conditions for making glass – pure water, sand, wood and ferns. Every ...

Blown glass balls

Creative workshops


Christmas cookies, Advent crowns, spice bread and decorations... Christmas in Alsace rhymes with celebration and creation. With friends or family, why not enrol for one of the many theme workshops? The hardest thing will be deciding which one to do! But then again, why choose just one? Christmas ...

Creative workshops