Many Budapest Hotels are situated nearby, so if you're staying in one of them the Budapest Christmas Fair is just a short walk from your lodging.

Cottage-style wooden stalls and an outdoor stage take over one of Budapest's most attractive squares.

You can smell the scent of traditional honey cookies, mulled wine, cinnamon and fir from far. The rich fragrant simply lures you to the market.

The famous Gerbeaud Confectionery has an Advent Calendar on its windows. The pages turn over day by day, each day a decorated window opens at 17.00.

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Do you want to surprise your relatives and friends with something special at Christmas?
Budapest Christmas Fair is the best place to buy Exclusive Christmas Gifts:

All products are hand-made and the Hungarian Society of Folk Arts guarantees their quality.

You can watch many cultural programmes and listen to folk music while you're looking for gifts.

On 21st-23rd December a small Betlehem comes alive on the square with a crib and live animals. You can take part in a Christmas tree decorating competition, as well.

Don't forget to taste traditional Hungarian food and cakes: strudel, grilled sasuges and meat, Christmas cookies, kürtös kalács (hollow, cylinder-shaped pastry with different coatings: sugar, walnut).

Try lángos, it's a kind of fried dough. Today we usually deep fry it, though countrymen baked it in ovens a couple of decades ago. It is baked freshly in traditional clay ovens on the fair too.

If you get tired of the bustle, have a cup of coffee with a delicious Hungarian cake in Gerbeaud Café.

The Budapest Christmas Fair is one of my favourite events in winter. Even if I don't intend to buy anything, I like to stroll among the stalls, have a glass of mulled wine and view some of the cultural programmes on the outdoor stage.
I usually end up buying something special for one of my loved ones.

You'll find similar Budapest Christmas Markets at Liszt Ferenc tér (Pest, near Oktogon) or at Nyugati tér, (Grand Boulevard, M2 line, trams No.4, 6) but this one at Vörösmarty Square represents the sort of Advent atmosphere that we most long for.

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