We Found a Europe’s Best Christmas Market INSIDE a Palace! | Regensburg, Germany @MYTravelBF

We Found a Europe’s Best Christmas Market INSIDE a Palace! | Regensburg, Germany @MYTravelBF

I’ll let you in on a secret. Across all of Europe, no matter where you are, you’re never far from a good Christmas market. And in Germany especially, they’re endless. However, what if you don’t want good? What if you want great? Tucked away across this country, there are a handful of markets that are something so much more. The kind of special that’s worth planning your entire trip, your entire year around. A Bavarian Christmas market island transformed for the holidays. Rustic historic stalls lining ancient woodland canals just outside of Berlin. A magical market deep in the black forest nestled beneath the towering vioaduct. These are my favorites. And as a local, as a guide, it’s become my mission to find these very places every year. The markets that stay with you. The markets most travelers miss. And this week, I think we’ve done it again. Finding a new contender for the bucket list, as we found a truly charming, beautiful, and historic Christmas market inside a grand, gorgeous palace. So, come along for the ride. This is going to be an amazing day because this is Reaganburg, Germany. Now, of course, we could just rush right off to the palace, off to the market, but that wouldn’t be very slow travel of us now, would it? And I mean, with something as special as what we have in store tonight, I want to save it for the end of the day. I want to save it for when the sun goes down, the lights come on, and the atmosphere just becomes that much more magical. Meaning, we have quite a few hours to kill. I want to explore the city, see the sights often not so seen, and of course, I want to start the day off with my favorite of all German cultural traditions, cafe and ken. Coffee and cake time. Of course, I’ve been a little cheeky. Had a beer as a substitute. Camille can review the coffee. I want a beer. Nothing better than a German beer, right? I just am absolutely spoiled with this stuff. I’ve never actually had a Bishoff Hoff before. Let’s see how it tastes. Crisp, golden, better than a pillzer. This has just got to be one of my favorite kinds of beer there is. What a way to start the day, right? A little indulgent of me. For the cake, I’ve gone with a classic teuna, which is a kind of a cream and jam cake. Personally, it reminds me a little bit of a doornal villa, but you know, I’m not going to say that out loud, am I? You’re going to roast me in the comments. But German cakes, man, not enough people know how truly delicious these are. It’s only one way to find out, right? Yeah. Great. That Oh my god. Don’t film that. Don’t film me failing. Traditionally, this is a layered sheet cake with a kind of a custardy chocolate icing on top. We’ve got jam in between the vertical layers. It’s a beautiful cake. Yeah, you need to try this. This is really good. One more bite. Then you can have some. The jam is incredible. After you’ve eaten all the good part, then I can You can have the You can have the bit left over. Pass me the camera. You need to try this. Looks like I’m the only one here who’s honoring cafe and khin. My cappuccino is really good, but I’m excited for the cake. I need you to try it. And I will say it’s nice to be enjoying cafe and kukin in such a beautiful kanderai. I’m really enjoying the art nuvo aesthetic. But I need your opinion on this. Right. I thought it was incredible. Not to bias you, but what do you think? Those cherries are really strong. That’s delicious. It’s a good cake, right? M coffee, cake, fantastic beer, and an amazing atmosphere. I cannot wait to see what else today has in store. It’s starting off strong. And now, continuing the theme of showing you the sites of I didn’t have time for in my first video. Take a look at this behind us. What a rest bite from the rain. This is 2,000 years of history in stone itself. The original Roman walls of Regensborg and above it the medieval wall. That is a thousand years between those shoddily placed bricks and these truly gargantuan stones. This is a genuine sight to behold. I love this. a good ant aquarium and it’s free. Just underneath one of the parking lots, which is how they found it, they dug down and uncovered this. Can you imagine what a day at work? 2,000 years ago, 1,000 years ago, and us a continuation of the wall itself. It’s beautiful. Enjoying the view? I really am. I’m especially liking seeing the difference between the Roman and the medieval period. You feeling a little uh embarrassed about how terrible the medieval period is? The Roman Empire is clearly superior. I mean, I wouldn’t say I’m feeling embarrassed. I like the medieval period for being depressing. It’s just so shoddy. That’s why I love it. Now, unfortunately, the weather is just not particularly cooperative today. Welcome to Germany. During the Christmas market season, you hope for snow, you get rain. But that is not going to stop us from visiting a graveyard that has been on your list in particular for quite some time because Reagan is a fascinating city. If you’ve watched our other video, then you know it has a different architectural style, a different vibe than say Nuremberg or Munich. And that’s just kind of always been the case. And you can see that quite illustrated in this graveyard being that it is Protestant in the middle of Catholic Bavaria. Very nonconformist, but that just makes it such a fascinating place to visit and hopefully an interesting graveyard review. So, we have finally climbed up the hill and are now standing under the mausoleum to escape the rain. With that being said, welcome to Camille’s Graveyard Review, a YouTube video within a YouTube video. I am so excited to be exploring the Evangelicia Zantrell Frito because this is actually my first time in a Protestant cemetery. Most of the cemeteries that I’ve reviewed on this channel tend to be quite old, a couple hundred years older than this one. This cemetery was built in the late 1800s. However, the Evangeludent Frihoff was a planned cemetery. It is built up against a hill with sort of a central path running down the center with tiered levels. You walk up the stairs, there’s a circle with a fountain. Walk up some more stairs, circle with a fountain, and then you arrive at the mausoleum where we are now. I’ve just never seen that in a cemetery in Europe before. It’s almost palatial. It reminds me a little bit of Hannon Kimay. When you’re standing at the palace, there is a direct leading line down to the lake below. It’s really cool, very interesting. However, because the graveyard is comparatively not that old, I think it’s a little bit lower on the spooky energy that it’s giving. So, with all of that in mind, I’m going to give the Evangelis central Froff a 6 out of nine spooky ghosts. And as our last stop on this grand walking tour of hidden gems of Regensburg, where else could I take you than the old medieval wall and its grand watch tower? One of the very best preserved medieval watchtowers in all of Europe. I mean, is this a near from home video or what? Just look at the tower itself. Covered in arrow slits and a little house to drop your tar. This is a true medieval defensive fortification. And I love it. It’s located just far enough away as well from the tourist trotten streets that I have the whole place to myself and staring at this thing, it’s hard to imagine why. It’s just so cool. But to peel back the curtain for just a moment though, I must admit something. I’ve covered Reagansburg before and I never knew about the Protestant graveyard, the hidden piece of the Roman wall or this tower. I owe this information to a local expert, a subscriber, and now a friend, Paul Kubau. Thank you so much for the walking tour today. It’s a pleasure. And I hope you like the video. I hope you like the things that, you know, I picked out cuz uh it is basically not on the tourist trail. So for those who want to go a bit further, explore a bit more, there you go. Perfect. Honestly, thank you so much. It’s been amazing to meet you and I owe you for all the things you’ve shown. Just thank you so much. Thank you. And really quick, let me remind you that we release companion articles to every near from home video over on our website, near fromrohome.com, where we break down every trip into a bite-size itinerary, including complete maps and timelines, everything you need to follow along in our footsteps. So, please do go check that out. Spend a lot of time working on this, programming it myself for you to enjoy. And while you’re over there, don’t forget that you can also book an itinerary consultation with me and Camille where we hop on a video call together to talk all things travel, stepping day by day through your own itinerary and making sure your next trip to our neck of the woods is as perfect as can be. They are so much fun and it’s a great way for you to support the channel, help us keep the lights on. And I love getting to meet you all at home, too. So, please check out nearfrohome.com and, you know, like, comment, subscribe, all that stuff while you’re at it. Why not? And so, at long last, welcome to the main event. The very reason we traveled all the way to Reaganburg, Germany, it’s time to experience a gorgeous Christmas market in a grand European palace. Let’s go get in line. Now, interestingly enough, unlike most of the Christmas markets you’re going to go to out there, this is a ticketed event. It cost €12 to enter, but there’s only one way to find out if it’s worth it. This is so cool. I’m really, really excited. It is genuinely overwhelming how much there is to do at this Christmas market, which is a good sign considering we paid to enter. But the short of it is the entire market is split up into two zones. The palatial inner courtyards and the palace grounds. What should we do first? Let’s go inside the palace. Yeah, let’s do it. Wa! Look at the tree. That’s crazy. Well, that was interesting. Shall we take a turn around the princely courtyard and then get some glue vine? Absolutely. So cool. As if I wasn’t already enamored. I love a bit of blacksmithing. It’s just a That’s so cool to watch. We are absolutely spoiled for choice. This market is genuinely stunning. I am overwhelmed, but luckily whenever I’m overwhelmed at a Christmas market, I get a glue vine. It’s kind of the thing to do. This is always an appropriate way to start off your Christmas market adventure. And as if there could be no better thing than drinking amazing mold wine in a palace, we’re here with friends. Here’s Mike and Becca from My Travel Be. We’ve known them for years. Real channel enthusiasts. You’ll remember them from Vanbe. They make amazing German travel content. So if you like our videos, go check them out as well. Cheers everybody. Cheers. Happy to be back together. Getting a glue vine at a German Christmas market is a must, but this time we got it with anus amordto, which is a shot of amordo. That’s really, really good. And the amordo just adds like a little bite that is really delicious. Honestly, I know a lot of you guys have probably had glue vine at this point, but if you haven’t had it with a shot, it is a must. It’s delicious. I’m so hungry. This looks really good. I mean, like, how good does this look? I’m so hungry. And as important as the glue vine is, the fantastic drinking culture of a Christmas market, what can only be as important is the food. We went with a pizza bro, what I would usually call a flamin, a kind of Germanic pizza, if you will. And they’re kind of leaning into that. It looks absolutely delicious, though. We are eating it in this beautiful tunnel because it started to rain. It’s a little cold. I hope that goes away soon. But for now, this is kind of a beautiful place to eat a pizza. BR a lot of marble for pizza. You know, this is very fancy. It’s the fanciest place I’ve ever eaten pizza. Let’s see how it tastes. I would say this meal is as delicious as it is thematic. On the whole, I found the quality of the food and drink here to be a lot better than I thought. Maybe uh that entrance fee is worth something after all cuz this stuff is good. And what I’m really impressed by is the vegetarian option. Olive pizza. I haven’t seen that at a Christmas market before. You see what I mean? Like it’s better than you think it’s going to be. And the portion size is quite generous. I’m used to the Munich Christmas markets where the portion size is like this. Really small, tiny. This is good. I’m just really impressed with this market. The palatial courtyard was incredible. I mean, never before in a Christmas market have I been so spoiled for choice. I wish I had seven stomachs or 7 hours to truly enjoy it all. But the weather has broken. The rain is gone. Would you perhaps take a turn around and a stroll through the palatial gardens with me? Oh yeah, I am excited. Let’s go. I’ve never seen this before, but do you want to try a forest glue vine? Yes. Isn’t it cool looking? So magical. Yeah. Okay. Oh, there’s barely any point in reviewing the glue vine. You did an amazing job earlier and frankly, it’s really good. I mean, that’s all my review is to it. I’m not a huge glue vine fan. And I’ve been known to get a beer in the middle of a Christmas market before, but this is worth having. And yet again, this market is giving immaculate vibes, if I may, because they’ve got the music playing, right? They’ve got the live act, the trumpeters inside the inner courtyard, and they pump it out all through the gardens as well. So, no matter where you are, the music is perfection. So is this drink. So is everything about tonight. I won’t lie though. I do think it’s a little spookier out here than it even was in the graveyard earlier. I’d give it a three out of 10. Goes to fish’s past. Reasonable. I’m having such a good day with you. Beep. Hello. I know this is a petting zoo for children, but I love it. This market is also really good for families, too, especially the kids. I mean, I remember being a child going to markets with my family and being bored to tears. So, the fact that they have a section full of rides. I mean, carousels, ferris wheels, there’s a train over there and a bunch of swings all in this absolutely beautiful environment. I mean, who doesn’t want to get a family picture here? It’s really lovely. The palace grounds are really nice, but we’re missing one thing. What? A sweet treat. Let’s go. Obviously, for our sweet treat of the evening, we’ve gone for a langos, a Hungarian dish, usually savory with uh bacon and cold mozzarella cheese on freshly fried dough. But I wanted it sweet, so they just kind of covered it in Nutella. What more could you want than that, right? I mean, this has just been such an indulgent evening. Why stop now? But most importantly, how do you think fried dough covered in Nutella tastes? Only one way to find out. Obviously good. Oh, not a dignified guest. It’s absolutely delicious. Obviously, and being a few glu in, I mean, it’s just that much more exciting. But this final indulgence shall also end this video. Has this market been worth €12? Obviously, I think so. I mean, I was nervous. It’s not just an implicit yes. I live in Munich, probably one of the best places in the world for Christmas markets. Yet, I traveled all the way out to paid money to go to one, and I’m so glad that I did. The inner courtyard is amazing. The grounds are really good. I mean, this place is well worth traveling to, even if you live a little further away from it than Munich. I hope you’ve enjoyed this video half as much as I’ve enjoyed making it. If you have and you want to learn more about Reagan, I’ve got an entire video for you to watch. And if you’ve loved it and you want to know more about Christmas markets, maybe a bit about Munich, then I have so many more for you. An entire playlist that you need to go watch right now. Merry Christmas everybody. Like, comment, subscribe, and tell your friends.

A Christmas market inside a 500-year-old palace. This is Thurn und Taxis in Regensburg, Germany – and it might just be the most magical market in Europe. Come along as we explore the city the slow travel way before the sun goes down and the palace lights up.
Regensburg is one of Germany’s best-preserved medieval cities, with Roman walls, hidden graveyards, and art nouveau cafes that most tourists walk right past. We spend the day discovering the sights unseen before finally making our way to the palace gates for an unforgettable evening at one of Europe’s most special Christmas markets.

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0:00 Intro
1:24 Cafe und Kuchen
4:05 Roman Wall
5:30 Protestant Cemetary
7:55 East Gate
10:15 Entering the Thurn und Taxis Market
11:25 Palace Courtyard
16:10 Palace Gardens
17:50 Petting Zoo Market
18:40 Sweet Treat
19:30 Conclusion
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