Strasbourg Christmas Market 2026: A Grinch’s Take on France’s Christmas Capital

I’m not a Magic of Christmas Girl.

I’m a “Mostly Healed My Christmas Trauma but Remain Suspicious of This Time of Year Because It Might Try to Hurt Me” person.

As such, I was fully prepared for Strasbourg to be overrated. In my Grinchy opinion, any place that calls itself the Capital of Christmas is just as likely to be a miserable tourist trap as an actually enjoyable place for festive winter fun.

And then we got off the train and started walking through town…