Cities across Europe hold Christmas Markets every year – with tens of millions of people descending on city centres across the continent.

However, perhaps nowhere takes it more seriously than Cologne, with the German city’s Christmas attractions bringing more than four million visitors into the city in the run up to December 25.

The city – named one of the ‘best’ in the world to visit at Christmas by Conde Nast Traveller – hosted its first Christmas Market all the way back in 1820, however…