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Suggestions for a Long weekend in Switzerland to see some cozy christmas spirit

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Hi All,

My husband, myself, and our twin girls (18 months) currently live in Barcelona and are looking to travel somewhere early December for a long weekend we have, most likely Thursday to Sunday. We´d love to see a city or village that does christmas really well - markets, lights, etc. We will most likely fly into Zurich, and then would want a place that´s within 2-3 hours by train from there. Also open to any other places outside of Switzerland. I should add that yes, some people think we´re crazy to travel with 18 month old twins, but we have travelled quite a bit with them and overall love it. We´ll bundle them up and take them anywhere! Thanks in advance!

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Lots of places within that range of Zürich airport have Christmas markets.
One of the biggest and best (and oldest) is Strasbourg (about 2½ hours from Zürich airport). It has lots to see apart from the Christmas.
Website: https://noel.strasbourg.eu/en

If you have time you could stop off in Basel on the way there or back, it is where you need to change trains anyway.
Website: https://www.basel.com/en/Christmas-in-Basel

Colmar is a nice town with a smaller Christmas market. But it is smaller and the station is some distance outside the city centre.
Freiburg-im-Breisgau also ticks all the boxes

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