The “West Side Christmas Market” will once again be organized in Bucharest’s Drumul Taberei Park by the same team that manages the popular Untold music festival in Cluj-Napoca. The fourth edition is set to open on November 28.<\/p>\n
The event has become a tradition for District 6 City Hall, and will take place in the dried lake bed of the park.<\/p>\n
Local authorities will not spend any money on organizing the event, as Untold will cover all necessary expenses, according to City Hall representatives quoted by Agerpres<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Last year, “West Side Christmas Market” was visited by over one million people.<\/p>\n Essentially a German tradition, some of the earliest Christmas markets date as far back as the 15th century. The German city of Dresden first opened a Christmas market in 1434.<\/p>\n In Romania, the tradition is much more recent. The first official Christmas market took place in Sibiu in 2007. The city is home to a once-numerous group of ethnic Germans living in Romania. That year, Sibiu was the European Capital of Culture, and the Austrian Embassy in Romania was a partner of the local authorities in organizing the Christmas Market.\u00a0<\/p>\n Aside from Bucharest, Timisoara, Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca, and Craiova by now have a tradition of holding impressive Christmas markets.<\/p>\n The main Christmas Market of Bucharest will be open in Constitutiei Square on November 29.<\/p>\n