Home
Newsletter
RSS Map
Privacy Policy
Contact Us
Search
Newsletter
Your name
Your E-mail

We will never expose your E-Mail address or offer it to any third party

December Holidays in the Netherlands
comments (0) article print view
publisher
send to friends
add to favorites
post comments
Travel Articles >> Seasons >> Winter
Travel Articles >> Events >> Holidays
Travel Articles >> Locations >> Europe >> Netherlands
The last month of the year is a long-awaited time not only for children. The most popular December events in the Netherlands are loved by the Dutch of all ages. Moreover, foreign tourists visit the country to witness some of them. In December Holland shall host: the Holiday of Candles, Winter festival in the entertainment park Efteling, Dickens’s Holiday, Christmas spectacle in the Het Loo palace, as well as overall circus performances, holiday fairs and music festivals.

The annual Holiday of candles begins on Tuesday, 11 December, in the medieval town of Gouda. It shall be celebrated for the 52nd time. You can get to this town by train from Amsterdam or Hague. It is easy to imagine that you are living in the Middle Ages when thousands of candles are lit on the central town square. The event lasts all day long. Holiday markets and concert pavilions are arranged in the center of the town. And in the evening the guests shall enjoy the captivating ceremony of fir-tree lighting and dancing.

The entertaining park Efteling shall be opened in the period of school holidays from 22 December to 6 January. The Efteling park invites its guests to have an unforgettable party time on Christmas and on the New Year’s Eve. The 55-year old park has opened special winter attractions, an enormous skating-rink, a museum, a fairy-tale wood and a gallery of games. There are hotels, bungalow and cafes attached to the park. The Dickens’s Festival in Deventer shall resemble the town of the 19th century where the English writer Charles Dickens had lived. An original carnival shall serve as salt of the holiday at weekend on 15 and 16 December. 750 characters from books of the great writer shall walk along the city streets. Each year this festival is visited by more than 100 000 guests. The entrance to the festival is free. The celebration shall take place in the centre of the town where all shops, galleries and cafes shall be opened.

Christmas in the Het Loo palace shall take place from 18 December to 6 January in the royal palace of the same name. The palace itself shall have an unusual look. It shall be transformed by means of numerous garlands and flowers. Trees shall be draped with beautiful brocade, decorated with crystals, silver candelabrums and colorful fruits. Christmas decoration of the palace annually attracts thousands of curious visitors.
[Get This Article]
Most Viewed Articles in Seasons:Winter, Events:Holidays, Locations:Europe:Netherlands categories:
  1. Where Live the Tallest People in the World?
  2. About 60 thousand people kissed simultaneously in Venice
  3. Tourists from all over the world are gathered to see the Bulls Run in Spain
  4. One Can Get Rid of All the Worries in New York
  5. Hit-parade of the best holidays of the world
  6. A Tulip-shaped Island to Be Built in the Netherlands
  7. Wet t-shirt festival
  8. The Netherlands have prohibited all smoking except of "weed"
  9. A trip inside the human body
  10. Theft lessons in the Netherlands
  11. Advice to Lovers in Prague
  12. Marriage on the 14-th of February at the Top of the Empire State Building
  13. December Holidays in the Netherlands
  14. The Swedes Decide With Whom to Celebrate Christmas on the Threshold of the Holiday
  15. Parisians Discovered How to Use Christmas Trees
This article has been viewed 556 time(s).
Article Submitted On: December 4, 2007
Most popular Articles:
Copyright © 2010 TripSpirit.com. All rights reserved.