Within all German traditions and customs everything around Christmas plays an outstanding role. Dresden and the surrounding region of Saxony are famous for its long history and huge variety of Christmas traditions.

During December the oldest Christmas fair of the world takes place in Dresden, the so called “Striezelmarkt”. In small villages in the mountains next to Dresden famous wooden figures and sculptures are made especially for Christmas. A world-famous Christmas-cake the “Dresdner Christstollen” is only made here.

There are plenty of Christmas-concerts, short: it is a time when cultural traditions are very important and present everywhere. The programme:

1st day: arrival; city-tour through Dresden; visit of the Christmas-market “Striezelmarkt”

2nd day: whole day trip to the mountains next to Dresden; visit of a museum for traditional wooden art; in the evening concert in Dresden, then party

3rd day: morning: visit of the world-famous Art-gallery of Dresden; afternoon: visit of another, more traditional Christmas-market; after this: goodbye or party and departure next morning

The event will take place in a time when cultural traditions play the most important role in the life of the local people, so it’s the perfect opportunity to learn more about German traditions and culture in general and the Saxon particularities in special. And Christmas is perfect to integrate people from whole Europe, to let them present their customs and bring people together this way.

Many people, several cultures, one project...

A Find Europe event is a high quality cultural European event aimed at transferring to participants a deep knowledge on the place where it is held, on the customs and traditions of the local people, developing in participants intercultural senility and understanding. In particular, a Find Europe event should preferably be organized in time converging with special and traditional happenings in order to give to AEGEE members the chance to participate in them as well.

Find Europe is not the usual project, this is the way to brake down stereotypes, way to show to the "strangers" who we really are, way to share our cultural heritage with the Europe. If we understand the way out neighbors live, we will realize how multicultural and complicated Europe is, and than, maybe, we will learn how to be more tolerant, open minded and how to live together under the one European roof.

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