Vipiteno Christmas Market 2021
A huge tree, wooden huts, and Christmas decorations among the houses, windows, and the Twelve Tower create a unique magic that you can only experience at the Vipiteno Christmas Market. This year’s novelty is the theme of the “Christmas Bells,” to which all the scheduled events until January 6, 2022, are dedicated. For example, there are 25 bells that make up the music box – made by the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck – installed on the Twelve Tower and that rings every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday at 5:00 PM with a piece recorded by the composer and musician Josef Haller from Vipiteno. The typical wooden huts are not missing, offering culinary specialties but also Christmas decorations, soaps, herbal teas with alpine herbs, and much more.
To the north of the Isarco Valley, Vipiteno is a city with an ancient mining history characterized by its historic center, a beautiful example of medieval art: the imposing Twelve Tower, in the main square, serves as a backdrop to the market that lights up Piazza Città from November 30 to January 7, 2008.
It is an ancient Tyrolean parade: a thousand lights, a thousand colors, a thousand songs, a thousand fairy tales. In this splendid setting, the Christmas events of Vipiteno are held, a shining South Tyrolean location. Here it is possible to spend a real fairy-tale Christmas, the one that each of us has dreamed of at least once.
Certainly, you cannot miss the Nativity scene at the Twelve Tower, the highlight of the Nativity scenes set up throughout the town. These are unique pieces, dating back to different eras. The Nativity scene at the Twelve Tower is particularly valuable; the figurines were handmade, a sign of an ancient art still interesting and full of meaning today. To preserve this tradition, children will have the opportunity to get involved by building cardboard Nativity scenes that they can then take home.
Also in Vipiteno, as is traditional in all other South Tyrolean centers, the Christmas Markets are a big attraction. If you still haven’t finished preparing Christmas packages, there is time to buy them at the many colorful and picturesque stalls of the Christmas market in Piazza Città.
In the streets of the South Tyrolean center, as usual, the evocative Christmas procession takes place, consisting of the ancient Tyrolean parade. Musicians and simple extras animate the cold days of Vipiteno, involving visitors in an atmosphere of another time.
And to rest, after these pleasant walks among tradition, fairy tale, and Christmas magic, it is possible to take a pleasant relaxing break in the Vigil Raber room, open every weekend before Christmas.
Vipiteno is a medieval city and the city of the Fuggers. Over time it has preserved its poetic and colorful temperament without changes. It is located at almost one thousand meters above sea level and currently has almost six thousand inhabitants. In the past, this location was home to several kings and emperors. Nowadays, elegant shops suitable for shopping all year round can be found in the streets of the historic center.
Also in Vipiteno in South Tyrol, pines and firs, in their majesty, are decorated with apples, cookies, nuts, and other delicacies, to the delight of the little ones.
To the north of the Isarco Valley, Vipiteno is a city with an ancient mining history characterized by its historic center, a beautiful example of medieval art: the imposing Twelve Tower, in the main square, serves as a backdrop to the market that lights up Piazza Città from November 30 to January 7, 2008. Also in Vipiteno pines and firs, in their majesty, are decorated with apples, cookies, nuts, and other delicacies, to the delight of the little ones.
What could be more romantic than a carriage ride through the streets of the historic center of Vipiteno? A unique occasion to satisfy both adults and children, discovering the markets that this small village offers, perhaps stopping at the Nativity scene exhibition in the Twelve Tower.
From December 8 to 10, instead, at the upper station of the Monte Cavallo leisure mountain, you can visit a small but delightful market with typical local products, in contact with the true artisans of Vipiteno and tasting local products such as bread and sausages or barley soup, polenta with mushrooms, dumplings and mushrooms, at the Hotel Post.
The guided tours are very special, which on certain days of the week take visitors to the Monteneve mines in the Ridanna Valley.
Finally, alpine music and Christmas songs give this Vipiteno Christmas Market, often covered with snow, a truly unique atmosphere.
