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Manchester’s Christmas Markets have been named the second-best to visit in Europe - beaten only by Nuremberg in Germany.

The city was included in a list of the ten best markets across Europe to visit over the festive period in 2025 by travel publication TimeOut.

It beat destinations in Switzerland, France and Austria to bag second place, but just missed out to the historic German Market.

Manchester was praised for being good for those seeking “an underrated UK trip”. TimeOut did acknowledge that Manchester may not spring to mind when it comes to Christmas destinations, but said that the city “comes alive at Christmas, just not in the same ‘in your face’ way as some of the others in Europe.”

Well, we’ll take that. TimeOut also highlighted that this year the market “wi

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