The town’s medieval buildings and alleyways ... Valkenburg, in the southern Netherlands, has much of the usual European Christmas charms to entice visitors: lights, trees, stalls and gluhwein ...

Not only does the Pennsylvanian town, known as 'Christmas City USA,' evoke a sense of European Christmas nostalgia, but its name is appropriate for its theme. The small town of Bethlehem is ...

A special log is dragged around the house or town (or, in the countryside ... warmth and opportunity of the year ahead. Like many European Christmas traditions, the burning of the Yule Log ...