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The Top 4 Advent Events

Our top events and Christmas markets in the Villach region during the Advent season!

In the most atmospheric time of the year, the pre-Christmas Advent season, you will spend relaxing days in the region “Villach – Lake Faaker - Lake Ossiacher” and you will be getting into the Christmas spirit. Enjoy a wonderfully reflective and romantic time at the many different Christmas and Advent markets - in the city, on the mountain or by the lake.

1. Advent in Villach
During the Advent season, the town of Villach in Carinthia enchants its guests with culinary delights, cultural highlights, shopping pleasure, Alpine-Adriatic flair and the sun of the south. In short: A unique fusion of cosiness and lifestyle.
With over 60 mountain huts, many events and a lot of art and cuisine, you cannot help but to start feeling Christmassy! The younger guests can enjoy the Christmas Post Office, a choo-choo train, a petting zoo and the ice rink in front of the town hall.
NEW: Every Saturday and Sunday: An Advent cruise on the Drau!
www.villacheradvent.at


2. Bergmann's Advent in Bad Bleiberg

Saint Barbara, patron saint of miners, celebrates her name day on the 4th December. It always has been and still is a custom in Bad Bleiberg to honour this day. Lighting a Barbara candle and the cutting of cherry branches mark the beginning of the "Bad Bleiberg Bergmannsadvent" in Bad Bleiberg.
www.bad-bleiberg.at


3. Christmas tree diving
A beautiful Advent tradition on Lake Aichwald in Finkenstein is the Christmas tree diving organised by the Water Rescue Service of Faak. Christmas tree diving has been a memorial service for more than 25 years, remembering all those who fell victim to drowning. Every year the day before Christmas, locals as well as guests meet and enjoy a contemplative time at the lake with mulled wine and tea.


4. Farmers Advent in Villach
Every year just before Christmas, the Christ Child, accompanied by the holy three kings and his angels, arrives in Villach by boat with the Drauschiff and is met with lanterns, bells and singing on the Drauterrassen.
www.bauernadvent.ata>


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