Every year, Wroclaw’s Christmas Market brings lots of joy to many people: it creates a unique festive atmosphere. This is the end result, which consists of a lot of work during preparation. We have a handful of facts from the process and surprising figures.
Wroclaw’s Christmas Market 2024 in figures:
- Approximately 30 km of cables are routed through the Market Square and 1.5 km of overruns have been installed.
- More than 90 lorries bring the infrastructure of the Christmas Market.
- 550 Christmas trees decorate the Market Square and the surrounding streets.
- A 24-metre high Christmas tree stands near the City Hall, with a two-metre high star on top in the shape of white light braids. It is decorated with 120,000 lights and 3,000 gold and silver baubles.
- 50,000 collector's mugs were sold a year ago. Will we break the record?
- Another record to be broken – members of the assembly teams have already set their watches and are beating the daily mileage record – the record holder from 2023 did almost 50 km in one day working on the set-up of the Christmas Market.
- The fair will have equally divided 230 trading houses: 50% of the stalls are catering and food products, and 50% are handicrafts, crafts and industrial goods.
- There will be 200 exhibitors from Europe and Poland, including a very large group of exhibitors from Lower Silesia (over 70%).
- The products that will be available for purchase in the houses come from Poland, Germany, Slovakia, France, Turkey, Lithuania, Hungary, Ukraine, Spain, Italy, Georgia and other countries;
- 40 days – this is how long the Christmas Market will last.
- 17 days of events: intimate concerts, a Santa Claus party, children's workshops, a city game and much more.
- Around 300 children from Wroclaw's kindergartens and schools will take part in free Christmas workshops (decoration of gingerbreads, carousel rides, hot chocolate, animators’ supervision).
- 125,000 – the number of people following the Facebook profile of the Christmas Market.
More than 50 free exhibition spaces will be made available in the city's zone ‘Wroclaw Socially and Locally’ to Lower Silesian and Wroclaw-based non-governmental organisations, local food producers, family-run manufactures and craftspeople.
There will also be the Municipal House, hosted by Wrocławski Park Wodny SA this year. It will be possible to buy items from the WROshop there, including: sweatshirts, mugs, towels, caps, scarves, backpacks...
