Festival of Lights
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Christmas
ChristianNuremberg, Germany
November 2026 · 30 days
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The liturgical year produced the West's parade culture: carnival before the fast, saints' days in summer, All Souls in November. Secular Europe inherited the dates.
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Featured · 2026Festival of Lights
Christmas
Four weeks of Advent, one candlelit night, and a market that smells of cloves.
- Dates
- 27 November – 26 December 2026
- Location
- Nuremberg, Germany
- Duration
- 30 days
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Christmas is kept in almost every country on earth. We use Nuremberg as our window onto it because its Christkindlesmarkt is one of the oldest and best-documented Advent markets, and because it shows how the season is lived on the street, not only in church.
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