Estonia Christmas Markets

Estonia’s second city, Tartu, is located in the interior of the country, not far from the Russian border. Tartu is an ancient city of medieval origin, it was an important commercial center, known by the German name of Dorpat, which was part of the Hanseatic League from the XIII century, in the XVII century the famous university was founded there. ...

The capital of Estonia has its own Christmas market since 2001, but Tallinn also boasts of being the city that had the first Christmas tree ! In fact legend tells that, in 1441, in the same square where today takes place the Tallinn Christmas Market, a bachelor merchant danced and sang along with the local girls around a tree, which they set ...