{"id":25140,"date":"2016-12-15T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/?p=25140"},"modified":"2016-12-01T12:44:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T10:44:57","slug":"old-town-christmas-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/old-town-christmas-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Town Christmas Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>The magnificent Christmas tree<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> (brought from Rapla County) in the centre of Town Hall Square in Tallinn\u2019s Old Town is the centrepoint of the market. Around the tree sits one of Europe\u2019s most beautiful Christmas markets, which Business Insider Holland also named Europe\u2019s most economical. Next after Tallinn are the markets in Riga and Prague.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The market opened at the end of November and the feeling of Christmas is already in the air. The market is open daily from 10.00-19.00 until 7 January. Visit Santa daily from 12.00-18.00 in his house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">As is tradition, on Christmas Eve, the mayor of Tallinn will declares Christmas peace at 12 noon in the Town Hall Square.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">As in previous years, you\u2019ll find all kinds of different gifts for everyone on your list, with everything from handicrafts to smoked meat. Have you ever tried bear meat sausages or a beaver\u2019s tail? Both of these can be vacuum sealed to take home with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Wandering around the market you can also taste traditional Christmas foods like blood sausage and sauerkraut. Food can be enjoyed with different flavoured mulled wines with or without alcohol.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s4\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Location<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ee\/maps\/place\/Raekoja,+10146+Tallinn\/@59.4372107,24.743287,17z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x46929362111848cf:0xefeeed85b8b85e5d!8m2!3d59.4369761!4d24.7450143\">Old Town Christmas Market in Tallinn\u2019s Town Hall Square.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Open until 7 January 2017, daily from 10.00-19.00. Cultural programmes on Fridays and Saturdays from 17.00-19.00, Sundays 12.00-14.00.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christmasmarket.ee\/\"><span class=\"s1\">www.christmasmarket.ee<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Click on the address to see the location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">TEXT SILJA HURSKAINEN, PHOTO ANDREI CHERTKOV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magnificent Christmas tree (brought from Rapla County) in the centre of Town Hall Square in Tallinn\u2019s Old Town is &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shopping-en","category-culture"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25140","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=25140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}