European Holiday Markets
Day 1 - Depart USA Overnight flight to Nuremberg.
Day 2 - Arrive Nuremberg On arrival at Nuremberg airport, you are transferred to your ship.
Day 3 - Nuremberg Visit Nuremberg's Christmas Market where you can browse through over 200 wooden stalls. As part of the city tour, we - ll explore the medieval landmark of the Kaiserburg Castle, the Medieval town and the holiday bedecked central marketplace with its beautiful fountain.
Day 4 - Regensburg Located amid gently rolling hills lies Regensburg, a well-preserved Medieval gem where little has changed in nearly five centuries. On your tour, you - ll see the Cathedral of St. Peter, with magnificent stained glass windows; the Gothic structure of Town Hall, where the first parliament of the Holy Roman Empire sat from 1663 to 1806, and the town's famous 12th-century Stone Bridge.
Day 5 - Passau Your guided walk starts in the Medieval section of Passau, then takes you past St. Stephan's Cathedral and the Town Hall. As an added treat, you - ll see both gingerbread making and floral decorating demonstrations.
Day 6 - Linz Linz offers a lively Christmas Market filled with everything from Christmas Crèches, for which Linz is famous, to the ever-popular Linzer Torte. Your guided walking tour takes you to Linz's Alter Dom, Nordico Museum, New Church, and through the pedestrian zone, Alter Markt, and the impressive Main Square, one of Austria's most attractive closed squares.
Day 7 - Dürnstein — Vienna The tiny Baroque village of Dürnstein seems lost in time. Inside this Medieval town's walls is the Augustinian Convent, and site of a specially arranged organ concert. Yet more enchanting music is waiting for you in Vienna this evening, where you - ll enjoy a concert of Mozart and Strauss.
Day 8 - Vienna Decorative lights blanket the city and aromas of macaroons, nutmeg rum balls and rich Viennese coffee fill the air at this magical time of year. With your panoramic city overview, travel the stately Ringstrasse, where the surrounding buildings give off a distinctive imperial air, and see St. Stephen's Cathedral and Figaro House. Vienna's Christmas Market, sitting front and center of Vienna's Baroque City Hall.
Day 9 - Depart Vienna This morning after breakfast it's time to bid farewell to new-found friends as we transfer you to Vienna airport.
Day 10 - Cruise Ship operating this itinerary River Countess
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