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Christmas Village in Baltimore is an annual holiday market event in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, with vendors in both traditional wooden booths and a festival tent. Commercial vendors sell international seasonal holiday gifts, ornaments, arts and crafts, as well as European food, sweets and hot beverages.〔Meehan, Sarah: ("German Christmas Village will return to Inner Harbor on Thanksgiving" ), (Baltimore Business Journal ), 4 November 2014.〕 Along with an Ice Rink at McKeldin Square, Santa’s House at Harborplace and the Holiday Light Show at the Power Plant, Christmas Village is one of Downtown Baltimore’s holiday attractions.〔Visit Baltimore: ( "The Holidays in Baltimore" ), (Visit Baltimore ), November 2014.〕 Christmas Village is held at Westshore Park since 2013. == About == Christmas Village in Baltimore claims to be modeled on the style of traditional German Christmas Markets. 〔Reiss, Dawn: ( "U.S. home to fantastic Christkindl markets" ), (USA Today ), 17 December 2013.〕 Christmas Market events such as the famous Christkindlesmarkt in Nuremberg, which dates back to the 16th century, are part of a long tradition of farmers' markets in Germany's inner cities. 〔Bakst, Alex: ( "A Visit to Germany's Christmas Markets" ), (Spiegel Online ), 7 December 2006.〕 Several vendors sell food specialties such as German bratwursts with sauerkraut, schnitzel, leberkase, Bavarian pretzels, Swiss cheese and French crepes. Sweet food offered include bratapfel, lebkuchen (gingerbread cookies), stollen, spekulatius, rosted nuts, kettle corn and cotton candy. In addition to hot drinks such as hot chocolate, Christmas Village offers Gluhwine (mulled wine), a spiced wine. Besides local vendors and artists there are German vendors selling Erzgebirge Christmas decorations, pewter ornaments, candles, nativity sets, glass ornaments, toys, woolens, wooden ornaments, lace, spices, jewelry and other gifts. 〔Sachs, Andrea: ( "In Baltimore and Philadelphia, two German-inspired Christmas villages" ), (The Washington Post ), 5 December 2013.〕 The booths' assortment is related to the holiday season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christmas Village in Baltimore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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