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Away.com has dubbed Charleston the third best place for holiday travelers to visit, in the world!

With Germany at number nine and San Francisco at number one, locations ranged across the board, with our little Holy City perched nicely at number three.

Away calls Charlston "a jewel-like historic district", and mentions the Festival of Lights, horse-drawn (well, downtown they're actually mules, but they look like horses) carriage rides, and spiritual concerts as some of the reasons to spend the holidays in Charleston.

Check out their website to see who else made the list and, what else Away had to say about our historic city.

Go get the list at Away.com.