Levico Terme Christmas Market

Levico Terme is a spa town in the Valsugana, at 506 metres above sea level and around twenty kilometres east of Trento, on the shore of its lake. Its Christmas market, the Mercatino di Natale Asburgico, is held in the historic Habsburg park, a garden opened in 1905 that Wikipedia gives as the largest historic park in the province. Levico Terme Christmas market is confirmed for its 25th edition from 21 November 2026 to 6 January 2027 by the Levico Terme in Centro consortium and the Valsugana tourist office. The chalets are strung out along the park’s paths, under the tall trees, which makes it a woodland market rather than a square market. From Trento, you get there by train on the Valsugana line, and the park is in town, within walking distance of the station.

Levico Terme Christmas market in the Habsburg park

The park was laid out at the time when Levico belonged to Austria-Hungary, when the town welcomed spa guests who came to take its ferruginous and arsenical waters. Wikipedia credits it with more than 76 tree species, including giant thujas, over a little more than 13 hectares, with the Villa Paradiso in the middle of the lawns. The market occupies the main paths: around fifty wooden chalets according to the guides, food stalls, an area for children and, in some years, a live woodcarving symposium. The name “asburgico” (Habsburg) refers to that period, and the staging plays on the fin-de-siècle feel, with lamp posts and chalets in dark colours.

The park stays open to the public the rest of the year and entry for the market is free, as the municipality confirms on its website. The park is large for a market of this size, and you can step away from the rows of chalets to walk beneath the bare trees without leaving the fairy lights. Light matters a great deal here: the paths are lit by strings of lights stretched between the trees, and the market comes into its own in the late afternoon, when the park darkens and the chalets stand out beneath the branches. Once night has fallen, the nearby lake is no more than a black mass, but during the day you can walk to it from the centre.

Mountain flavours and crafts of the Valsugana

The Valsugana tourist office describes chalets of local crafts and food. The guides mention mulled wine, produce “with mountain flavours”, objects in leather, glass and wood, nativity scenes and decorations. Vin brulé is drunk under the trees, which makes a change from town squares; if you want to know how it is made in Italy and elsewhere, we compared mulled wine and its variations in a dedicated article. The food chalets serve hot Trentino dishes, with covered tables to eat on the spot; the menu varies from one year to the next and the 2026 programme gives no details.

For children, the 2025 edition offered an “elf village” with a meeting with Santa, creative workshops and a small petting farm with animals. The tourist office still mentions the farm and Santa for the 2026 season in its general presentation of the valley’s markets, without a detailed calendar yet.

Dates, opening hours and practical info for 2026

The 2026 edition, the 25th, opens on 21 November 2026 and closes on 6 January 2027. The market does not run every day before Christmas: the announced opening days are 21, 22, 27, 28 and 29 November, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 and 24 December, then every day from 26 December to 6 January. Hours are 10am to 7pm, extended to 8.30pm on 5, 6 and 7 December, over the Immaculate Conception long weekend. 25 December is not among the opening days.

• Where: historic Habsburg park (Parco Secolare degli Asburgo), viale Rovigo, in the centre of Levico Terme.
• When: from 21 November 2026 to 6 January 2027, weekends and public holidays before Christmas then every day from 26 December, from 10am to 7pm.
• How much: free entry; allow €10-20 per person to eat on the spot and leave with a decoration or a wooden object.
• How: Levico Terme station on the Valsugana line (Trento-Bassano del Grappa-Venice), car parks in town, SS47 road from Trento.
• Nearby: Pergine Valsugana Christmas market is on the same railway line, Trento Christmas market at the end of that line, and the Tenna fort, between the lakes of Levico and Caldonazzo, hosts its own small market in its rooms.

The park is flat, with wide gravel or earth paths: easier going than the cobbled lanes of a village, but the ground can be muddy or frozen depending on the day and the organiser says nothing about the accessibility of the chalets. By car, you arrive on the SS47 Valsugana road from Trento; the town-centre car parks fill up on December Sundays, so go for the morning or the train.

Getting to Levico Terme from France

The train runs all the way here again: the Valsugana line reopened in December 2025 after ten months of closure for the first phase of electrification work, but trains are still diesel-hauled, as the switch to electric service has been postponed; a few one-off interruptions with replacement buses remain possible in 2026, so check the Trentino Trasporti or Trenitalia timetable. The direct TGV and Frecciarossa Paris-Turin-Milan trains resumed in spring 2025 on the Maurienne line, with three TGV and two Frecciarossa a day, around six hours to Turin and seven to Milan; a closure for engineering work in the Mont Cenis tunnel is announced from 11 September to 9 October 2026, before the season, but check the state of the line when you book. From Milan, train to Verona then Trento, and at Trento the regional trains on the Valsugana line head down to Pergine, Levico Terme and Bassano del Grappa. You can also arrive via Venice, at the other end of the line, which lets you combine the lagoon and the mountains in the same trip.

By car, Fréjus or Mont Blanc tunnel (toll), A4 to Verona, A22 towards Trento, Trento Sud exit, then the SS47 towards Pergine and Levico. From Lyon, it is a full day’s drive; from Nice or Chambéry, a busy half-day. By air, Verona and Venice are the best-placed airports, with the train afterwards.

Levico, its spa, its lake and Sisi

Levico is known in Italy for its thermal waters, exploited since Austrian times. The market park was part of the spa establishment, and Wikipedia reports that Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Sisi, had a residence in the great park. The spa is still running, and a ticket to the baths after visiting the market is not a bad idea when it is cold.

Lake Levico, whose outflow forms the Brenta, lies below the centre, with a promenade along the shore. Lake Caldonazzo, larger, is next door, separated from Levico by the Tenna hill and its Austrian fort. The Valsugana is a valley of passage between Trento and the Veneto, gentler than the Dolomite valleys, with orchards and villages on the slopes. Levico Terme Christmas market makes more sense with this backdrop: a slightly sleepy spa town that relights its lamp posts for December, and a century-old park dressed in fairy lights.