Aliya Arman

Plenty of us dread the cold temperatures and rainy days that linger for months when winter arrives, but as with every year, there are plenty of places adorned with twinkly lights, filled wholesome crafty goods and pouring cups of steaming glögg that’ll help us get us through it. Christmas Markets are joy-filled places, there’s no denying that, and from the cobbled streets of Edinburgh to the mountainous backdrop of Lucerne, there are little squares all over Europe packed with stocking filler and cheerful vibes. Whether you’re dreaming of a white Christmas or looking to escape to the Mediterranean, there’s a perfect destination on this list for you. Here are our favourite Christmas markets in Europe. Best Christmas markets in Europe at a glance 👯‍♀️ Most popular: Rathausplatz, Vienna, Austria 🎄 Most traditional: Town Hall Square, Tallinn, Estonia 🎠 Most unique: Liseberg, Gothenburg, Sweden 🔔 Most atmospheric: Colmar, France ⛄ Most underrated: Cathedral Square, Vilnius, Lithuania Which country in Europe has the best Christmas markets? There are a lot of great Christmas markets in Europe, but the country that boasts the highest volume of great Christmas markets has to be Germany. Here you’ve got the likes of Nuremberg (arguably the most famous on the continent), Munich, Berlin, Ravenna Gorge and a whole lot more – each of them as weird, wonderful and uniquely German as the next. For the full list, check out our guide to the best Christmas markets in Germany.  📍 Discove

Há quem tema o frio e os dias chuvosos dos meses no Inverno, mas o que não falta por essa Europa fora são destinos com luzinhas cintilantes, produtos artesanais e copos de glögg a fumegar que nos ajudem a ultrapassar a época. Os mercados de Natal são locais cheios de alegria – é impossível negá-lo. Das ruas empedradas de Edimburgo, na Escócia, ao quentinho do Funchal, na Madeira, há pequenas praças que se vestem para o Natal e espalham o ambiente de festa à sua volta. Já escolheu qual destas 17 cidades vai pedir ao Pai Natal para visitar? Recomendado:🎄O melhor do Natal em Lisboa

Europe is not lacking in jaw-dropping beauty. Its home to seven Wonders of the World, for one thing, as well as 34 UNESCO World Heritage Sites – and even that doesn’t begin to scratch the surface of the incredible things you can find across the continent. But even if we can’t list every single beautiful place in Europe, we can list our favourites. To put together this list, we asked our editorial staff team and travel writers based all over Europe for the most beautiful things they’d ever seen on their travels. The result? Stories of taking boats out on Germany’s hidden lakes, climbing up to vast sand dunes in France, afternoons spent strolling Art Nouveau streets in Latvia and childhoods spent clambering over jagged stones in Ireland. From solitary islands to well-trodden walking routes, here are the most beautiful places in Europe, picked by us. 📍 RECOMMENDED: Our ultimate guide to destinations in Europe Ella Doyle is Time Out’s guides editor. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

January is (thankfully) nearing its end. You know what that means? It’s high time you book that trip you’ve been thinking about. The question is, where to go? Well, we at Time Out have some ideas. We asked our editors for the number one destination they think should be on travellers’ radar this year, whether for unmissable events or cool new hotels, unspoiled nature or a growing dining scene. Our sights are set on foodie trips in Spain, starry skies in Norway, surf breaks in Siargao – and much more where that came from. Here are 12 amazing places we think you should explore in 2025. RECOMMENDED:🌇 The best cities in the world in 2025🗺️ The 25 best things to do around the world in 2025🧳 Five countries that really need more travellers this year

This year has been a belter for live music. Our cities have come alive with pop comebacks, raging metal shows and some damn good dance tunes. We’ve fully embraced our tastes, however cringe they may be (there’s no shame in loving something). We’ve screamed out lyrics, two stepped to our heart’s content, moshed in a festival field and everything in between. Gen Zers bragged about ‘escape room pop stars’, veteran jazz fans stroked their chins to legends of the scene and some of us unleashed our inner teens by watching pop-punk superstars. Here are Time Out’s favourite live music moments of 2023 – taking in picks from all over our huge, juicy global network of editors.  RECOMMENDED: 🎬 The best movies of 2023🕺 The 23 best songs of 2023🎵 The 30 best albums of 2023

From head-spinning literary debuts to masterful novels from authors at the height of their power, big-name autobiographies to binge-worthy cultural histories, here are our editors’ favourite page-turners of 2023. Add these lot to your ‘to read’ pile, stat. RECOMMENDED: 🎬 The best movies of 2023📺 The best TV shows of 2023🎵 The best albums of 2023

Some year, eh? We’ve been blessed with some absolute crackers of albums over the last 12 months. We’ve had sad girl anthem after sad girl anthem (boygenius, Mitski and Lana Del Rey in the same year?!), breakthrough pop stars (hello: Raye and Olivia Dean), as well as dancefloor-ready K-pop, killer soundtracks and emo kid comebacks. It’s been a stand-out year for new music, and while it’s never fun to have to choose your favourite, yes, we’ve gone and done it. We asked Time Out writers and editors from around the world to choose the one record they had on repeat over the last 12 months. Without further a do, here are 30 of our favourite albums of 2023. RECOMMENDED:The best movies of 2023 (so far)The best TV shows of 2023 you need to streamThe 50 best podcasts to listen to in 2023

O Natal é a altura mais mágica do ano e, para muitas famílias, a tradição da época passa por visitar um dos famosos mercados de Natal espalhados um pouco por toda a Europa. Os motivos para visitar um destes mercados são muitos, a começar pelas compras, mas também pela música, pelas iluminações nas ruas, e pelo cheiro a vinho e a chocolate quente (ou ginjinha). Não esquecemos os doces típicos da quadra, sempre presentes nestes mercados natalícios, e a decoração das montras. Se é daqueles que gosta de viajar, esta é a altura certa para ir à procura do melhor destino nas companhias aéreas. Se decidir ficar por aqui, aproveite para visitar a Vila Natal de Óbidos ou o Perlim, o reino mágico em Santa Maria da Feira. Recomendado: As melhores lojas no Porto para comprar presentes de Natal

At the art’otel Hoxton, London’s newest skyline hotel, there’s art to be found at every turn – in the most literal sense of the word. The 26-storey tower stands where the old Foundry pub once was, an iconic East End hangout that became the cornerstone of the noughties’ Brit Art movement. These days, it’s fair to say that the hotel takes its name and alt-scene heritage with a seriously cool sense of pride. From the moment you arrive at the front doors, you’re greeted with not one but two original Banksy artworks: one of a giant rat and another of a TV set being chucked out the window. Subversive comic-strip style installations by resident artist D*Face are dotted around communal spaces. Head down to the basement level and you’ll discover an in-house gallery. And if the many, many murals have left you feeling inspired? You’ll find sheets of sketch paper and watercolour brush pens waiting in the room for you. The room itself is bold and slick, with plenty of chic touches — a Dyson airwrap, a retro record player, a Roberts radio – and eco-conscious Kevin Murphy toiletries there at the ready. And, as one of the few tall towers in the East End, the 357-room hotel features floor-to-ceiling windows in every suite. If it’s views you’re after, the London skyline is pretty hard to beat here.  Blending modern flair and convenience, art’otel Hoxton has got the whole ‘artsy without being pretentious’ vibe nailed. Neighbourhood Just a stone’s throw away from Old Street station, the hotel

London Fashion Week is just around the corner (September 15-19), and some brands are pulling out all the stops to make their mark – or tube stops, in some cases. Bond Street has officially transformed into Burberry Street, as part of the brand’s citywide takeover for one of the most stylish weeks in town.  The signage features one of Burberry’s new official colours, knight blue, which has been picked out by Chief Creative Officer Daniel Lee. Sure, TfL takeovers are nothing new. Southgate station was temporarily rebranded as Gareth Southgate station following England’s World Cup campaign in 2018 (we were robbed). It happens informally, too: just this summer, Barbican was jokingly renamed ‘Barbiecan’ to poke fun at the OTT marketing campaign for Greta Gerwig’s record-breaking ‘Barbie’. This time though, fun has been swapped for frustration, with spectators all saying the same thing: it’s confusing. In campaigns past you were unlikely to lose more than three seconds recalibrating your route. ‘Burberry Street’, however, could quite legitimately be plonked on the Monopoly board. Who knows how many Uniglo bag-donning tourists are currently flailing around the underbelly of the Jubilee line. One Twitter user, @castlefacts1, said: ‘The idea of signage is to be useful and informative, not some tacky marketing campaign.’ And it’s not just tourists that are baffled. Londoners have been left scratching their heads too. ‘Yes the Burberry takeover of Bond Street is cool but it also had me