Christmas at Graceland
Elvis Presley Mansion
Memphis TN
2011

https://www.graceland.com/christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS, BABY
Experience the magic and beauty of Graceland this holiday season with festive events to celebrate one of Elvis' favorite times of the year. During the holiday season, visitors can enjoy our Holiday Lighting Weekend on November 17-19 and special holiday tours of Graceland Mansion and grounds decorated for the Christmas season from November 17-December 23! Plus, we also offer a Guest House Holiday Hotel Package that includes hotel accommodations, a Christmas tour, and other fun holiday items.

Join us at Graceland this holiday season for an unforgettable experience - and see why Graceland was voted into the top spot for USA Today's 10Best Readers' Choice for “Best Holiday Historic Home Tour” for four years in a row! Graceland has also been nominated to be a contender again in 2022.


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Christmas Trees might well have started out as 'Paradise Trees' (branches or wooden frames decorated with apples). These were used in medieval German Mystery or Miracle Plays that were acted out in front of Churches during Advent and on Christmas Eve. In early church calendars of saints, 24th December was Adam and Eve's day. The Paradise Tree represented the Garden of Eden. It was often paraded around the town before the play started, as a way of advertising the play. The plays told Bible stories to people who could not read.

Christmas Trees as they came to be now started around the late 1400s into the 1500s. In what's now Germany (was the Holy Roman Empire then), the Paradise Tree had more decorations on it (sometimes communion wafers, cherries and later pastry decorations of stars, bells, angels, etc. were added) and it even got a new nickname the 'Christbaum' or 'Christ Tree'.