Austria & Prague market season
Spring travel: Austria has nine standout Easter markets running around Apr. 3–6 — from Vienna palace markets to family‑friendly events in Burgenland and craft fairs in Lower Austria (thelocal.at). Prague’s spring markets are back too, including the Charles Bridge Egg Festival and a reopened Náměstí Jiřího z Poděbrad farmers’ market after two years of construction (expats.cz).
Vienna is running five city‑wide Easter markets this season with roughly 230 stalls listed on the city events page. (wien.gv.at - ) (wien.gv.at) Schönbrunn Palace’s Easter & Spring Market opens March 25 and runs through April 19, converting to a spring market after Easter and operating daily in the palace forecourt. (schoenbrunn.at - ) (schoenbrunn.at) The long‑running Ostermarkt am Hof in central Vienna is scheduled from March 20 to April 6 this year, anchoring one of the city’s main Inner‑City market sites. (ostermarkt-hof.at - ) (ostermarkt-hof.at) Lower Austria’s spring circuit includes recurring Schloss Hof and Schloss Rosenburg Easter fairs with multiple weekend dates through March–April, while the Palais Niederösterreich “Oster‑Erlebnismarkt” drew about 15,000 visitors in a recent edition. (ostermaerkte.at - ) (ostermaerkte.at) (noe.gv.at - ) (noe.gv.at) Burgenland highlights include a castle Easter market at Forchtenstein on March 28–29 with an onsite children’s craft programme and free castle admission via the Burgenland Card on those dates. (burgenland.info - ) (burgenland.info) Prague’s Charles Bridge Easter programme is listed for March 29 at 13:00 on the city tourism calendar as the Egg Festival event on the bridge. (prague.eu - ) (prague.eu) The Jiřího z Poděbrad farmers’ market (Trhy na Jiřáku) restarted its season on March 18 and publishes regular opening hours of Wednesday–Friday 08:00–18:00 and Saturday 08:00–14:00 on its organiser site. (trhyjirak.cz - ) (trhyjirak.cz) (praguedaily.news - ) (praguedaily.news) Organisers moved Prague’s Wenceslas Square market activity to Náměstí Republiky this spring because the upper section of Wenceslas Square remains under a multi‑year reconstruction that includes a new layout, tram realignment and a multi‑hundred‑million‑crowns investment. (expats.cz - ) (expats.cz) (english.radio.cz - ) (english.radio.cz)
