Christmas Village

A Christmas village is a landscape of collectible miniature cottages (1: 56) as decoration around the Christmas.

The cottages are usually of pottery and porcelain, can be from within or polystone lit. There are also cottages with mini-led-lights on the outside. The village is further complemented by trees, street lanterns, animals, landscape features and figures (dolls).

The village is placed on artificial snow or a (home-made) landscape. Nicely furnished villages are found mostly in the shops that sell them. Garden centres and especially seasonal stores these on, often also with mountains or forests.

The Christmas village is originally American, but is becoming increasingly popular in Belgium and Netherlands. [source? ] In contrast to the United States is here the Christmas village usually not placed under the Christmas tree, but on a special for the Christmas village decorated table or Cabinet. Unlike a model trains set up is all broken down and stored after the season.