From 14 November to 20 December 2026, the Weihnachtsmarkt returns with more than fifty stalls in its characteristic wooden chalets. Traditional food and arts and crafts from across Europe bring the flavours and scents of Christmas to Florence.
It’s a chance to try tempting seasonal specialities, warm up with a hot drink and browse for unusual gifts and handmade Christmas decorations.
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Location: Firenze
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Make this event part of a Florence trip
Coming for Christmas Market in Piazza Santa Croce? Give yourself time for Florence too. Plan a stay around the event, or add a day or two to a trip you already have in mind.
What else would you like to see?
Choose a few places that appeal to you, whether you stay for the event or make a longer trip of it.
The San Lorenzo Market, also known as the Mercato Centrale, stands in the square of the same name a short distance from the famous basilica. It is also popular with tourists seeking food and wine experiences.
The ground floor brings together sellers of fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and bread, with opportunities to eat on the spot.
Upstairs, the Mercato Centrale gathers delicatessen shops and restaurants with different specialities in a space open all day until midnight.
The covered Sant’Ambrogio Market houses food shops. Its quality produce and affordable prices make it a reference point not only for the neighbourhood but for the rest of the city. The market continues outside, in the mornings only.
In the heart of Florence, this open-air market sells clothing, leather accessories and souvenirs. Popular with tourists, it stretches along Via dell’Ariento and the streets beside the large rectangular building of the Mercato Centrale.
This place is known by three names: Loggia del Porcellino, after the famous bronze animal—actually a wild boar—which is a copy of Tacca’s 17th-century original in the Stefano Bardini Museum; Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, to distinguish it from the old market on what is now Piazza della Repubblica; and Mercato della Paglia, because traditional Florentine straw hats were sold here from the 19th century. Designed by Giovan Battista Del Tasso in 1550, the building has three 19th-century statues in its corner niches. They depict figures from Florentine history: Michele di Lando, a leader of the 1378…
Piazza della Signoria took shape in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with the construction of the Palazzo dei Priori, renamed Palazzo Vecchio in the sixteenth century. It immediately became the city’s political centre and a space for civic life. The symbolic building, still home to Florence’s municipal government, offers several museum routes: the monumental apartments, the archaeological area with the remains of the Roman theatre, and the Tower of Arnolfo with its splendid panorama.
