Best Christmas Markets in The Balkans

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Christmas is a great time to visit Europe. Most people immediately jump at the chance to visit Germany or Switzerland to experience a Christmas market, and for this reason, they can be extremely over crowded and unenjoyable.

Balkan countries like Croatia, Slovenia and even Bosnia and Herzegovina offer some truly remarkable Christmas activities and markets for visitors to plan their trips around.

In fact, one of the oldest Christmas traditions comes from the Balkans! The custom of badjnak or the yule log actually originated in the Balkans. Traditionally, this is when the patriarch of the family has to go out and find a Yule Log and on Christmas Eve the log is then used to start the fire that will burn through Christmas Day.

With Christmas fast approaching, we wanted to bring you some of our favorite Christmas markets in the Balkans for you to help plan your trip around.

Most of these…