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Experience a Christmas fairy tale
 
From the 14th of November until the 21st of December, the international Christmas Market Fluweelengrot (Velvet Cave) in Valkenburg, in the very south of the Netherlands, will open its doors again.

The Christmas Market in the Velvet Cave is the biggest Christmas Event of the Netherlands!

It concerns a Christmas event in settings of the fairy-tale theme 'Christmas Elves'. What is striking is the romantic and fairy-tale translation of the theme into decoration, stories and scene of the market, with moving decorations and reflections of mirrors.

Besides the theme, the atmosphere of the cave will bring back the ancient and almost forgotten legends and memories of the city of Valkenburg.

A walking tour of the market will lead you through a romantically lit up Christmas Cave with a 18th century chapel, impressive mural carvings and sculptures.

Twinkling lights and magic illumination that reflect the soft marlstone walls break through the rustic darkness of the cave. Gentle Christmas music breaks through the (normally) every day serene silence.

A tour of capricious passages will lead you past caverns, decorated niches, stalls with various Christmas items and Christmas gifts for sale (various Christmas decorations, cribs, candles, jewellery, crystal, Belgian chocolate, candy, fantasy figures, marlstone decorations...) and a few stalls that demonstrate old Dutch trade & (handi)craft.

Don’t forget to visit the enchanting catering garden in the ‘heart’ of the cave, to have a bite to eat and experience the famous Christmas drink ‘Glühwein’ (sparkling hot wine)... And of course, don’t forget to taste our local specialties: vlaai (pastry), “poffertjes” (little pancakes) and pea soup!

All in one, a Christmas experience for visitors of all ages, never to forget...

See you at the Christmas Market in the Velvet Cave!

www.kasteelvalkenburg.nl
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The Fluweelengrot
The Fluweelengrot
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