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Prague Christmas Markets in Prague
Old Town Square has served as a marketplace since the tenth century, and its modern Christmas market, the largest in the Czech Republic, now draws hundreds of thousands of visitors from home and abroad each Advent. Wooden stalls selling mulled wine, trdelnik and crafts surround a large decorated tree beneath the Gothic spires of the Tyn Church, a setting CNN ranked among the world's ten best Christmas markets in 2016.
Old Town Square has functioned as a marketplace since the tenth century, sitting at the crossroads of European trade routes with thirteen stone cots once selling imported cloth around the base of the town hall tower and portable stalls run by bakers, potters and gingerbread makers filling the square around it.