Shopping at Christmas Markets in France
Monday, February 20th, 2012
France offers excellent opportunities when shopping for Christmas gifts. Christmas markets in France have become popular with many buyers in the UK, offering a wide range of unusual gift ideas for Christmas and they are very fun to attend as well.
Even the most experienced of Christmas shopping, it’s hard to resist entering the holiday spirit while shopping at a Christmas market in France. Christmas market in France, you can often find stalls selling everything from delicious pies, cakes, chocolates, sweets, cheeses, pates, meats and other products for the traditional Christmas decorations, crafts and Christmas gifts. Christmas markets in France also offer many other activities such as fairs, concerts and shows.
With Christmas music playing in the background, flashing lights of Christmas, the delicious aroma of roasted chestnuts fills the air and provides a glass of mulled wine (mulled wine) to keep warm, the Christmas markets in France containing a magical Christmas atmosphere all their own.
Most Christmas markets in France are annual events since late November with a few opening in early December. As the Christmas markets and events in France can vary from city to city, contact the French Tourist Office for details.
Below is a selection of Christmas markets in northern France, as are available in the UK is an ideal day for Christmas shopping or perhaps a well deserved Christmas break.
Christmas Market in Lille
Held at the downtown Place Rihour, Lille Christmas market month is a stage full of colorful Christmas lights and wooden chalets selling everything from crafts Christmas specialties in French, local, jewelry, toys and Christmas gifts.
Highlights Lille Christmas market are: Ferris wheel near the Grand Place, Santa Claus is involved in a spectacular event every Saturday in December, when it “falls” of the Chamber of Commerce 80 meter high bell tower and the last Saturday before Christmas, an orchestra of 450 tubas performs Christmas carols.
Amiens Christmas market
Is said to be the largest Christmas market and the largest in northern France, Amiens downtown turns into a beautiful Christmas party scene with the splendor of alpine chalets and stalls selling of products and goods in the region de Picardie.
Visitors to Amiens Christmas market can be bought with ease, and wandering through the pedestrian streets with trees and Christmas decorations. Also organized as a sample, carols and activities for children.
It is also well worth paying a nighttime visit to the magnificent Gothic cathedral of Amiens, the cathedral of Notre-Dame d’Amiens. Ranked as one of the sites of World Heritage since 1981, Notre-Dame d’Amiens is the centerpiece of the “Cathedral of Colors” light show that takes place during holidays and other times of year.
Boulogne-sur-Mer Christmas Market
An annual event, the Christmas market Boulogne is organized in the city walls of the finest ancient charm. With its cobbled streets and its quaint charm, the characteristics of the positions of Boulogne Christmas market selling all kinds of arts and crafts, Christmas gifts, regional cuisine and local specialties such as smoked herring Cracker cakes. Previous Christmas markets have included an ice sculptor, musical parade and fireworks.
Category : Popular Destinations
Tags: Amiens Christmas market, Boulogne Christmas market, France, holiday spirit, northern France
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.