Frosty air nips at your cheeks and breath clouds form as you exhale. You catch the scent of mulled wine, ginger, cinnamon, and intense vanilla. All around you are bright Christmas lights, matching the ...

STORY: "I think the business is quite good now. After these years of closing down (for the pandemic) people are ready to come out and invest in Christmas ornaments," the 83-year-old entrepreneur said ...

Visiting Switzerland at Christmas Christmas time is one of the best times to visit Switzerland! As well as the Christmas markets, Switzerland is famous for its snow-capped mountains, lakes, and ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - The fairy tale tram rattles along Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich's posh shopping street, beneath the twinkling Christmas lights as if this was just any other year. Inside the tram, children ...

For Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), Advent begins this year on 1 December with the launch of its ‘LXmas’ campaign and an appropriately festive raffle. Under the banner of ‘LXmas With You’, ...

High in Switzerland, the mighty Alps seem to shout the glory of God. Up here, the Christmas season fills a winter wonderland with good cheer. I’ll never forget the holiday I spent in the village of ...

For this year’s Advent season, Switzerland’s biggest airline is providing ‘LXmas’ surprises large and small to help get both its travelling customers and those staying at home into a magical festive ...

It really feels like Christmas in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, where the town’s traditional Christmas Market takes place near a 9th-century Benedictine monastery. As I headed south past Lake Zurich’s ...

A new cookbook offers recipes, some more than 1,000 years old, that have been served at the Vatican during the Advent and Christmas seasons. "The Vatican Christmas Cookbook" is written by chef David ...

New Swiss Guards march after their swearing-in ceremony at the Vatican May 6. Thirty-two new recruits were sworn in on the anniversary of the 1527 attack in which 147 Swiss soldiers died defending the ...

A Christmas ornament decorated with a church is displayed at a shop in Frankfurt, Germany. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, churches in Germany are to publish a flyer on home worship at Christmas.