{"id":153052,"date":"2025-11-18T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=153052"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:27:32","slug":"tallinns-famous-christmas-market-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/tallinns-famous-christmas-market-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallinn\u2019s Famous Christmas Market Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Located on Town Hall Square, Tallinn\u2019s Christmas Market opens this Friday, 21 November, for five straight weeks of holiday cheer. Holiday foods, Christmas wares, and wintery delights treat every visitor to a fun-filled evening exploring this veritable labyrinth of seasonal beauty. Mulled wine and grilled foods topped off with elaborate gingerbread creations will keep everyone warm on these cold, wintery nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Voted the top Christmas market in the world last year by <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christmastreeworld.co.uk\/blog\/europes-best-christmas-markets-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Christmas Tree World<\/span><\/a><\/span>, you can expect a lot from this year\u2019s event. To whet your appetite even more, Tallinn\u2019s Christmas Market\u2019s famous handmade truffles are back, as well! Mulled wine and other hot drinks will be available until 22:00 each night, and until 23:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">One thing that makes Tallinn\u2019s Christmas Market special is how it is organised on the square\u2014it\u2019s not in the shape of a square, but round, as it revolves around the massive Christmas tree at the centre. This is the ideal place to take your family\u2019s holiday photographs, because no matter where you look when standing at the tree, you are surrounded by medieval architecture. With any luck there will be snowfall when you visit, which only enhances the overall experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Old Saint Nick\u2014Santa Claus himself\u2014often visits, and even has his own building for children to visit him in. There is often live holiday music on the stage as well, so it will definitely be worth visiting this market multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Located on Town Hall Square, Tallinn\u2019s Christmas Market opens this Friday, 21 November, for five straight weeks of holiday &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":153053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[21559,26405,13362,13363,13451],"class_list":["post-153052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shopping-en","tag-events-in-tallinn","tag-holidays","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-market","tag-town-hall-square"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153058,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153052\/revisions\/153058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}