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Christmas traditions through time

16 november - 31 December

Sense, taste and enjoy Christmas through time with shining lanterns, Christmas-decorated streets and floating apple slice pancake puffs.

Have a chat with the town’s citizens and servants, who will gladly tell you all about Christmas. Visit historical shops and people’s homes, and see the Christmas decorations over time. Buy old-fashioned Christmas decorations and Christmas gifts, and show your children the pixie attic or visit Cone town.

Christmas traditions through the years

Experiense, sense and smell the Christmas traditions. Visit people's homes and experience Christmas decorations and atmosphere through time.

The Christmas route

Follow the lanterns and explore 400 years of Christmas traditions. Do you know, why there is ladders in front of some the windows in the 1864 quarter?

Cone Town

Do you believe in elves or people? Visit Cone Town and have a magic Christmas experience. But the magic only happens if you believe in it yourself.

The Elves' attic

Let the children explore the Elves' attic where the furniture is magical and turns children into little elves.

Meet the citizens

Chat with the citizens, servants and employees in the streets and historical shops. Meet the postman, the kitchen maid and the organ grinder who can tell you about Christmas traditions and life in a Danish market town around Christmas time.

Christmas carols

Treat your ears to Christmas music when the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus’ brass bands fill the streets with beautiful tones. 

The Christmas shop

Visit the Christmas shop, where you can buy hand-painted glass ornaments

Handicrafts

Find Christmas gifts in the stalls on the first floor in Bendtsen Warehouse. Open everyday from 15 - 23 December.

Lunch at Restaurant Gæstgivergården

Have a break and taste Danish Christmas traditions at restaurant Gæstgivergården.