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The origins of the Christmas date back to the fourteenth century with the so-called markets of Saint Nicholas, whose feast is celebrated on December 6. The first written record dates back to 1642 with a market set up in the Kaufinger Strasse. After several moves, finds its final position in the Marienplatz. In front of the St. Michael’s Church of the Nativity, the traditional market: wooden statues handmade in Bavaria and Tyrol and everything you need to make a nativity scene. Every night at 17:30 echo from the balcony of City Hall, ancient and modern Christmas songs. Finally, do not miss the showcase animated department store Kaufhof, always in Marienplatz.
The Christmas Market in the center of Monaco is one of the most important Christmas markets throughout Germany. There are more than three million visitors each year come to visit and admire the beautiful Marienplatz with it, the popular square-living as it is called, and the wonders of history and art scattered in the other squares and streets.
The approximately 160 wooden houses that constitute it are located around a beautiful Christmas tree that stands 30 meters from the center of Marienplatz, illuminated by 2500 lights suggestive of magic going on the whole square. The style of the stalls is typically Bavarian, as can be seen also from the delicatessen proposals: baked apples and caramel, fruit of all kinds covered with chocolate, almonds and other nuts, ginger biscuits, marzipan candies, potato pancakes with applesauce, vegetable burgers, potato cakes, Dampfnudeln (sweet leavened steamed with vanilla sauce), mulled wine and Kinderpunsch (for children), tea with rum, hot chocolate, and especially lots and lots of beer! The craft then proposes artifacts of the Bavarian but also from the rest of Germany. In addition to the usual Christmas tree and the crib, there are candles, greeting cards, clothes in hand-stitched wool, lace, ceramics Franconia, the hand-blown glass, toys and other wooden items of locale.Davvero a traditional Christmas market ideal, old, big, famous, rich in economic and original gift ideas, full of goodies and, above all, located in one of the most beautiful cities in Europe …
What could be better than to go sightseeing and enjoy Christmas with the Bavarians as the Bavarians!
Not only is the market
Another attraction is the main market of Monaco is the Fair of the Nativity, which takes place in the courtyard of City Hall, a short walk from Marienplatz. It is perhaps the exhibition of cribs Germany’s largest and hosts of many types, from the great and opulent crib Eastern Europe, the miniature set in an alpine landscape.
But it does not end here. From the balcony of City Hall every afternoon at 17.30 spread the notes of Christmas music, folk groups perform international alpine choirs, children’s choirs and orchestras of wind instruments.
Market of the Nativity
A Rindermarkt, a short walk from Marienplatz, takes what is probably the largest market of its kind in Germany … from the lantern to the stable and fodder for the ox and the donkey, the gifts of the Magi to the comet, you can find everything you need for a beautiful crib.
Christmas market in Schwabing
Between the decentralized, one of the most curious Christmas Markets of Monaco is located in the popular district of Schwabing artists and is called Market of Artists and Artisans. It ‘an alternative to the traditional Bavarian market and dates back to 1976,
where a hundred of the artists and craftsmen instituted for the first time in the yard Münchner Freiheit, in order to create a non-traditional art market and young. Here exhibitors showing paintings, sculptures, crafts leather, glass, ceramic, silk paintings, jewelery, photographs and candles.
The cuisine also differs from traditional specialties are Eritrean, Spanish, Mexican and Italian sausages and organic products of various kinds. It ‘also the Christmas Market that captures the multiculturalism of Monaco, its being together cities of art and tradition, but also a modern metropolis in step with the times.
Medieval Christmas Market
The medieval tradition is very much alive in Germany and Monaco. In the Bavarian capital is more than ever in the Medieval Market in the days of Advent is served in Wittelsbacher Platz. At Mittelaltermarkt everything seems to have stopped that old age, from the decorations of the banquet, clothing vendors, the products offered. In fact, you can buy handicrafts with period features, such as pewter goblets, musical instruments, hunting horns, baskets, textiles, dried fruit and spices. In addition, the whole is enriched by wonderful performances of medieval and Celtic music … a step back a few centuries which makes the atmosphere even more magical Christmas if possible!
Christmas Market Pasing
It ‘a small Christmas market in the west of Monaco, only open at weekends but very cozy and romantic. Schererplatz is in front of the church Maria Schutz. Its 25 wooden houses decorated and illuminated offer cosmetics based on honey, wreaths, antiques, collectible dolls, wooden toys, knitted Norwegian, cribs, craft works in straw and glass. And of course, between stands and the other, a chorus of boys and Alphorn accompany shopping.
Christmas Market Haidhauser
About sixty stalls is the Haidhauser Weihnachtsmarkt, the Christmas Market located in Weissenburger Platz. Here you can find products of high quality craftsmanship from all over the world, Christmas decorations, nativity scenes, ceramics, leather work, embroidery, crochet and mulled wine. It ‘s also an exhibition of Nativity scenes that houses among others a copy of South Tyrol and a live nativity scene. For children there is prepared a picturesque ride, while for larger there will be concerts of Christmas music performed on the harp, performances by jazz groups, violins and choirs.
Christmas Market at Sendlinger Tor
Located at the Sendlinger Tor, one of the ancient gates of Monaco, this lovely market welcomes about 40 decorated wooden houses, exposing mostly tree decorations, wooden toys and cribs from all over the world.
The Festival Tollwood
A Christmas market is also held in the same area that is home to the Oktoberfest, Theresienwiesen, and is called Tollwood Festival. It is a non-profit festival that takes place in Monaco in summer and winter, and proposes a market fair trade products exclusively organic food and crafts with zero environmental impact. Also, are the events circuses, concerts
cabaret, performances by acrobats, dancers and dreamers, exhibitions of sculptures and art installations of all kinds, exhibitions and debates. It is a market frequented mostly by young people, also because of the type of music played and the fact that the stands offering handicrafts and ethnic cuisine.
But the Christmas Markets of Monaco does not end here, there are so many!
They remember the Market Feldmoching in Mehrzweckhalle, the impressive Castle of Blutenburg Market, the Market Rotkreuzplatz in Neuhausen, that the Praterinsel, one of the islands formed by the river Isar in the center of Monaco, the Market and the Trudering Hohenzollernplatz. Some Christmas markets are located in very unusual places. Even one takes place near a popular youth hostel, the YMCA, and the other at the Biergarten Chinesischem am Turm, one of the most famous Biergarten (beer garden or a) of Monaco, located in the English Garden, at the foot of Chinese tower. The airport of Monaco hosts a Christmas market. To show that the capital of Bavaria is not afraid to dare to please the tastes of all, you should know that there is even a Christmas market devoted to the world of gay and called Pink Christmas, located at Stephansplatz not far from Sendlinger Tor.
How long?
25.11 – 24.12.2013
Where are they?
In the Marienplatz and surrounding areas
Times
Monday – Saturday: 10:00 to 20:30
Sunday: 10:00 to 19:30
December 24: 10:00 to 14:00
Christmas carols
Every day at 17.30 from the balcony of City Hall
Exception: the first day to 17.00
Other markets
· Market the Residenz (Kaiserhof courtyard)
· Medieval Market (Wittelsbacherplatz, 5 minutes walk from the Residenz , next to Odeonplatz)
tutti i giorni dalle ore 11:00 alle ore 20:00
· Weißenburger Platz (S1-S8 underground “Rosenheimer Platz”)
· Chinesischer Turm (bus 54, 154 “Chinesischer Turm”, tram 18 “Tivolistrasse”)
Toolwood – The Winter Festival (Theresienwiese)
from Monday to Friday from 14:00 to 1: 00, Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 1:00
Kitchen of Monaco
The most famous dish is represented by Weißwurst, the white veal sausage typical of Monaco. Are often accompanied by whole potatoes roasted in the oven, sauerkraut and mustard. The Weißwurst is also sold at kiosks throughout the city, served in a bun or accompanied by Bretzel. The pretzel is a baked product that replaces conceptually our crushed (it is salty, and is sold in bakeries (Bäckerei) at any time of the day and at all hours. Has shaped bow (there is a version of sweet bread covered briocheato chocolate) and covered with sunflower seeds or pumpkin. This bread goes well with meat dishes, but especially with the beer.
Based on the pig are Haxen (leg of pork) and roast pork, which are accompanied by potato dumplings (Knödeln), roast potatoes or sauerkraut.
But in restaurants is also a place for the fish (mostly trout), especially baked potatoes and accompanied by the inevitable.
If you wish, you can only eat in Bavaria with vegetarian soups, barley and vegetables, asparagus and potatoes, cooked in a lot of different ways.
The cake is undoubtedly the most famous apple strudel (Apfelstrudel), if served with ice cream or cream. The cream in the end may also represent a sweet unto them, as in the case of Bayerische Creme (Bavarian cream).
In the host city of Oktoberfest, do not be a protagonist beer. There is really endless, but among the most famous in Monaco should remember the Spaten, the Augustiner, the Löwenbräu and Paulaner Original, the great beers of Monaco factory now produces up to 7 different specialty beers with a monastic tradition that has in the activity of 1600.
Monaco is the capital of the German federal state of Bavaria, with its 1.3 million inhabitants is the third largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. E ‘characterized by that special romantic charm that only a city where for centuries a royal house can offer. The artistic culture has nothing to envy, thanks to more than 30 museums, two castles, the monuments, the infinity of breweries of all types, refined, as the work and the luxury shops in Maximilianstraße, and far more popular Beer Festival. In short, Monaco is not really possible to be bored or unhappy!
Among the most important places in the city center to visit in Monaco’s Marienplatz, the main square of the city, where you will find the Town Hall and Frauenkirche.
The Frauenkirche is also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady and it is the cathedral of Monaco of Bavaria, the seat of the archbishop of Monaco and Freising. Its construction was commissioned by King Sigismund of Bavaria between 1468 and 1488. Kind which had previously built a Romanesque basilica, the imposing brick structure is one of the finest examples of Gothic citizen who, with the two bell towers almost a hundred meters high, clearly dominates the urban fabric. The domes surmounting steeples, onion-shaped and made of brass, were completed only in 1525. Inside the church are kept many important finds of great historical and artistic value: the tomb of Louis of Bavaria, sculptures and paintings from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the Altar of Memminger, the life-size statue of St. George above portal to the northwest, and finally in a side chapel of the relics of the patron saint of Monaco S. Benno. A curiosity: the entrance to the church is the so-called Teufelstritt or mark of the devil. Legend has it that the devil would have entered the church to ridicule, because it lacked windows and, in fact, looking towards the altar, the columns of the nave hide from view any window.
The Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall) was built in the nineteenth century in neo-Gothic style, in particular, it refers to the Gothic Dutch. The structure is very wide, inside consists of six courtyards, and has a richly decorated with references to the history of Bavaria. The Town Hall is most famous for its tower, topped by a bronze statue of the Münchner Kindl (Christ Child of Monaco), symbol of the city, and the beautiful watch with one of the largest carillon in the world, the Glockenspiel. With 43 bells and 32 statues, is the fourth largest in the world and plays a crucial role tourism, it offers every day an exceptional show. In fact, for more than a century statues of the clock on the passing of the hours you put literally dancing. Every day from 11 to 12 we see the “Dance of the cooper,” a performance that is staged every year for the city’s streets and escaped commemorating the plague epidemic of 1515-17. At the end of this representation, a golden cock opens the wings, while a bellows mechanism reproduces the song. The mechanism works via the carrillon interchangeable rollers, each of which corresponds to a melody accompaniment. Therefore, each month, the exchange rate of the roller, change the melody! In the evening however, the niches located on the seventh floor of the tower appeared images of a bishop with horn, which blesses the Münchner Kindl, and an angel of peace who accompanies him to bed. This second representation is called “The Infant Jesus of Monaco is brought to bed.”
Without departing from Marienplatz so it meets the Hofbräuhaus, the most popular beer in Monaco and the world! Every day on the wooden tables of its halls are consumed about 10,000 liters of beer, served in a famous mug liter, Maß, to the accompaniment of strict Bavarian music.
About beer, then how can we forget the Oktoberfest, the event that made it famous in Monaco around the world for the largest beer festival in existence. Every year from the end of September, the Oktoberfest attracts thousands of tourists in the city from around the world!
The residence of Monaco of Bavaria for centuries has been the political and cultural center of the duchy first, then the principality and, finally, the Bavarian government. It held the dual role of the palace and seat of government and, therefore, was inextricably linked to the Wittelsbach dynasty. The residence was also the place where the rulers kept their art collections and the treasure of the house. It underwent accommodations and extensions according to the will of the individual kings, who on this occasion gave instructions renowned artists. At its core, therefore, there are many monuments remarkable, as the Cuvilliés Theatre, built between 1751 and 1755, which is a masterpiece of theatrical court in the Rococo style.
The Nymphenburg Castle or the Castle of the Nymph, is a beautiful baroque palace. It was the summer residence of Bavarian kings and today, together with its park, is one of the most famous monuments of Monaco of Bavaria. The grandeur of the baroque walls (about 700 meters wide) is matched only by the beauty of the frescoes contained within, such as in salt Steinerner Saal (Hall of Stone), one of the most spectacular. The park of 200 acres surrounding it, which was a Baroque Italian garden in the early nineteenth century it was transformed into the English Garden, which is still the green lung of Monaco, even larger than those of Central Park and probably one of the largest parks in the entire city.
Among the green areas of Monaco should not be forgotten, however, also Olympiagelände, the beautiful Olympic Park which hosted the Olympic Games in 1972.
The castle complex Schleißheim north of Monaco consists of three castles: the Old, the New, and the castle of Lustheim. Today the castle houses a gallery of Baroque paintings belonging to the collection of the State of Bavaria, one of the so-called galleries secondary to the Alte Pinakothek in Monaco, although the quality of the exhibits, especially after the last exhibition in 2001, is very high.
Finally, we should mention that Monaco is located near the concentration camp at Dachau.
