"On Ferragosto, the ArtEtroubles sculpture school lines the lanes of this open-air museum village with artisans and woodcarvers exhibiting alongside the permanent outdoor artworks of the borgo medievale."
Mercatino dell'artigianato di tradizione, Étroubles
"Named in the Valdostan dialect for a market of odds and ends, this charming annual flea market and antiques fair fills the historic centre of Morgex with old skis, vintage furniture, gerle baskets and bric-a-brac each summer after mid-August."
Martciä di Barradzüe
"Set in the shadow of the early 19th-century fortress of Bard, this is the valley's premier food and wine market, gathering Fontina DOP, Lard d'Arnad, DOC wines, honey, and mountain liqueurs from all corners of the region."
Marché au Fort
"On the slopes of the Monti Sibillini near the legendary Monte Sibilla, this 47th-edition market-sagra brings together local chestnut growers, honey producers, woodworkers and folk musicians in a mountain village that feels genuinely suspended between forest and sky in late October."
Sagra Mercato della Castagna di Montemonaco
"Above the Capuchin Gardens in Lana di Sopra, 20 stalls of local craftspeople gather for this Advent market themed on the Grimm fairy tale of the Star Money girl, with a Christmas Post Box, extended hours on New Year's Eve, and a children's story competition running throughout the season."
Sterntaler Weihnachtsmarkt Lana
"Held across Advent weekends in the unspoilt Sarntal Valley, this market of 20 handcrafted stalls is renowned for its lack of kitsch and abundance of genuine Sarner specialities including quill-embroidered goods, Sarner Striezl bread with speck, and the ancient Klöckeln custom on Thursday evenings."
Alpenadvent Sarntal
"High in the Val Gardena at 1,563 m and encircled by the Sella group and the Dolomites, Wolkenstein's Advent market famously features 13 festively decorated red gondola cabins circling above the mountain village throughout the season, with an annual snow-sculpture competition in late December."
Mountain Christmas Wolkenstein
"For over 15 years the pedestrian zone of the main village in the western Val Venosta has transformed each Advent weekend into a Christmas market celebrating local artisans, producers and hobby craftspeople, enlivened by the traditional hunting-horn blowers of Silandro."
Christkindlmarkt Silandro - Schlanders
"A Christmas market unlike any other in the Alps: stalls line the stations of the historic narrow-gauge Renon Railway on the plateau above Bolzano, with the Renon Farmers' Advent in Collalbo on 8 December featuring ventriloquist shows, llamas and Swiss pine products."
Rittner Christbahnl - Adventsmarkt Collalbo und Soprabolzano
"Set in the festively illuminated Church Square of the historic Parcines village centre, this Advent market combines a Farm Advent at the Unterweirach Farm and Christmas tree sales with the unique opportunity to visit the birthplace museum of typewriter pioneer Peter Mitterhofer."
Magia dell'Avvento a Parcines
"Held within the perfectly preserved medieval town walls of Glorenza, South Tyrol's smallest walled town, this intimate market of over 45 handmade-goods vendors beneath the historic arcades has drawn visitors for more than two decades under the motto Lights, Scents, Sounds."
Glurnser Advent
"This Ladin-culture Christmas market in Corvara's village square at 1,568 m features wooden stalls styled as mountain barns, a life-size nativity carved by sculptor Leo Moroder, and the distinctly Dolomitic atmosphere of Alta Badia's most celebrated mountain village."
Marcé da Nadé - Corvara Christmas Market
"Beneath the dramatic walls of the Sciliar massif, this charming village-square Christmas market at Fiè features a majestic fir, festive lights and concerts by the Fiè Men's Choir, youth ensembles and local DJs in a setting that embodies the spirit of a traditional South Tyrolean Advent."
Christkindl wortn - Weihnachtsmarkt Fiè allo Sciliar
"A small, charming Christmas village springing up around the pavilion at the heart of this Ladin hamlet in the Alta Badia, offering crafts, music, lights and gift ideas in a setting framed by the Dolomites."
Nadé te plaza - Il Villaggio di Natale di San Cassiano