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Christmas Angel
 
The Nuremberg Christmas Angel with her white and golden dress, long blond curls and her golden crown, has been the symbol for the Christmas Market for many decades. During Advent time, the Christmas Angel is the most important representative of the city and of the traditional Christmas Market.
Every year, on the Friday before the first Advent Sunday, the Nuremberg Christmas Angel opens the Nuremberg Christmas Market by reciting a solemn prologue. Her other tasks in the run-up to Christmas include appearances on the Christmas Market and on the Children's Christmas Market, fairy tale hour in the "House of Stars" and over 150 further appointments in charitable institutions. Her visits to old people's homes, kindergartens, institutions for disabled people and hospitals bring joy to many people. Just before Christmas, the Christmas Angel gives presents to the little patients of Nuremberg's children's hospitals.
In addition, the Christmas Angel has to give a lot of interviews, has many TV appearances, and acts as an ambassador for Nuremberg when she visits Christmas Markets in other cities. This Christmas messenger from Nuremberg is even known as far away as in the USA. The Chicago "Christkindlmarket" which was established in 1996 and is modelled on the Nuremberg market, is opened every year by the previous year's Nuremberg Christmas Angel – with the prologue spoken in English. This special representative of Nuremberg also pays regular visits to Nuremberg's Scottish sister city, Glasgow.
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