In Christmas time one of the best things to do, which attracts adults and children, is to count down with the Advent Calendar. One of the most popular is the one that allows you to count the days remaining until Christmas by opening numbered windows and in different areas of Italy and Europe there are cities and squares that offer this show.
In Germany and to be precise a Gengenbach the most famous of the advent calendars is found. Here every year the facade of the town hall offers this spectacle. As if by magic these windows attract every year or so 120 thousand spectators every year, for the ritual of opening the windows.
In Hungary, in Budapest, in Vörösmarty square there is another beautiful Advent calendar. With a large Christmas fir that dominates the one hundred wooden houses of the Advent market. Here, at 17pm every day, until December 23rd (the 24th is early at 12pm), on the building that, on the ground floor, houses the famous Gerbeaud pastry shop, a new window of the great Advent calendar is discovered that decorates the square , while a costumed musician plays Christmas music.
Italy too, a Bolzano, you find a beautiful calendar-facade, naturally in the only area where German is spoken, South Tyrol. In Bolzano the Max Valier building, in via della Posta there is a gigantic advent calendar. The nearby Piazza Walther is home to the characteristic wooden houses of the Christkindlmarkt.
A Graz, in Austria, the facade of the town hall ("rathaus") of Graz every day from 1 December, at dusk, turns into a large and bright calendar advent. Here it is not the opening of the windows, which reveals the daily surprise, but one projection which affects the entire surface and changes every day.
