About Christmas Garden Dresden
The popular Light Art Event returns to Pillnitz Palace & Park! Christmas Garden is a colourful idyll in the open air. Countless sparkling points of light, specially composed sound creations and new light designs every year cast a spell over guests. The magical journey into a luminous, resounding winter world begins at dusk. Many enchanting highlights were designed exclusively for the Christmas Garden Dresden 2026 and can only be experienced here.
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Biography of Christmas Garden Dresden
Christmas Garden transforms the extensive park grounds of Pillnitz Palace & Park into a magical Christmas world with numerous twinkling illuminations along a circular route of around two kilometres. A visit to the Christmas Garden Dresden is an experience that offers adults and children everything that makes a Christmas outing unforgettable.
Christmas Garden celebrated its premiere in Berlin in 2016. Due to its overwhelming success, further locations were quickly added, so that by 2025 there were already 13 locations in Germany and Europe. Around 1.6 million people visited the illuminated parks and gardens in 2025. In just a few years, Christmas Garden has developed into a glamorous highlight that fascinates hundreds of thousands of people during the winter season.