The Best Christmas Villages

Minimalists, this one’s for you. The Crate & Barrel Holiday House Set is ideal for someone who wants to create a grand and glowing display. Each set features 4 porcelain structures in a stunning snowy white finish. The village includes a variety of buildings, including a townhouse, cottage and church. Arrange your village across your fireplace mantel on a blanket of snow and switch on the lights to bask in a soft, golden glow.

Snowy and sophisticated, the Lenox Mistletoe Park Collection is a family heirloom in the making for classic Christmas decor lovers. The snowy porcelain village includes 16 stunning buildings and figurines, enlivened with jolly red details and gold foil accents. Start your Mistletoe Park village with the Park Chestnut Seller & Park Bench and build it out over the years with the bookstore, coffee house, ski shop and diner. Style your wintry town with fallen snow and bottlebrush trees for an enchanting tabletop scene.

What better way to bring on the holiday cheer than with a candle and a Christmas village in one? These Glasshouse candles each tell their own story, with hand-drawn illustrations that bring holiday scenes to life. As you look upon the gingerbread house, ski lodge, mansion and townhouse, candlelight illuminates the windows of each building. Collect them to create a festive Christmas village that smells as good as it looks.

Spice up your holiday decorating game with help from the Pottery Barn Gingerbread Village House Collection. Each confection-inspired casa is handcrafted stoneware and features a classic gingerbread cookie finish complete with swirling icing flourishes that make them look sweet enough to eat. The village houses are available in four storybook silhouettes that look stunning grouped or displayed solo at the center of your breakfast table. Build your festive frosted village one house at a time and add to the whimsy with a gingerbread train, Christmas tree and nutcracker soldiers each year.

Glittering, glam and gorgeous — the Emily Taylor x Anthropologie Light-Up Village Collection celebrates frost and frills, making it a seamless fit for any whimsical playroom bookshelf or entry console. The shimmering collection includes three paper-crafted storefronts with architecture inspired by famous European Christmas villages. Each structure is battery-operated, ensuring the town glows after dark. There are a variety of shops to choose from to create the ultimate holiday destination. The lot departs from traditional red-and-green and celebrates color with romantic pastel hues like a striped purple, bubblegum pink and sage blue.

For a holiday village that feels extra special because you built it yourself, try Lego’s Holiday Main Street. Assemble its toy store, music store and streetcar on your own or with loved ones to start a new holiday tradition. Plus, Lego adds a new set to its Winter Village collection each year, so you can keep expanding your display with something new each holiday season.

The Concordville Zinc Collection stands out from other options because its stunning iron structures serve as a blank canvas, complementing all holiday decor themes ranging from traditional red-and-green to vibrant bohemian schemes and everything in between. The handcrafted village includes a Tudor house, a Dutch barn, a clocktower and a windmill. Our favorite part? The collection also offers charming pint-sized accessories to bring the space to life, like an illuminated fire pit, a mailbox, miniature evergreen wreaths and miniature LED Lamp Posts.

Skip the frills and curate a Christmas village that aligns with your home’s contemporary interior design. The West Elm Ceramic Tree Village Tealight Candleholder Collection features glazed stoneware houses and trees that create a striking and dimensional mantel display. The seven-piece collection offers four home styles and three tree heights and all items look beautiful as singular candle holders or displayed as a group, serving as a holiday focal piece for your home.

Bring the Swiss Alps to your entryway with this playful ski village set from World Market. The snow-dusted trio is handcrafted from wood and boasts three traditional European-inspired silhouettes. Each LED-lit home is adorned with vibrant red, pea green and French blue millwork for a retro touch and features a fenced-in yard complete with snow-covered bottlebrush and laser-cut evergreens. Build upon your mountain town with the laser-cut Santa scene, a forest of tabletop trees and woodland animals to represent each family member.

If the Harry Potter films are considered Christmas classics in your household, this Department 56 collection will not disappoint. The magical collection offers familiar faces and landmark buildings aplenty including Hogwarts, Honeydukes Sweets Shop, the Boathouse, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes and The Leaky Cauldron. Start your spellbinding collection one iconic locale at a time and conjure new characters and meeting points each year.

Sweeten up your sofa table with the MacKenzie-Childs’ Gingerbread Illuminated Christmas Village. The charming collection includes three cookie-inspired cottages with MC’s iconic black-and-white checkered roofs. Icing-inspired windows and trim pop against the gingerbread frame and add a touch of romance to their designs. Build out the collection with the Illuminated Christmas Village Church, a grand Illuminated House and iced-to-perfection gingerbread trees.