Christmas Markets in Provence: Aix, Aubagne, Marseille...

Marseille


- Christmas Market  "Trophées des Lumières": wooden cottages, street shows - November 22th to December 31st, 10am to 6pm - Place Gabriel Péri and allées de Meilhan
- Foire aux santons - until December 31st, from 10am to 7pm - Place Charle de Gaulle (information in  french: click here)
- Christmas musical tank with Provençal traditional dancers, goblinsand a huge cuddly toys -November 28th and 29th 
- Santa Klaus, with on his back a basket full of surprises and letters, and its goblins downtown - December 9th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 19th and 24th - In the Christmas market and the Foire aux Santons
- Christmas lights downtown , Twinkling ceiling at the Canebière - November 27th and until January 11th

More information about christmas animation downtown: click here



Aix en Provence

- Christmas market : wooden cottages, merry-go-round - November 21st to January 3rd - Cours Mirabeau
- Christmas market of "twin cities": a world tour of christmas markets (Germay, Italy, Tunisia, Japan, USA.... ) - November 25th to 30th, 10am to 7:30pm - Place Jeanne d'Arc near the "Allées Provençales"
- Christmas farm - December 14th and 15th - Place Jeanne d'Arc in a marquee
- Provencal Market of  "13 desserts" - December 16th to 24th , 10am to 7pm - Place Jeanne d'Arc
- Foire aux santons - November 27th to January 3rd, 9am to 7pm; except December 25th and January 1st - Avenue Victor Hugo
- Toys Fountain for underprivileged children - December 12th 2pm to 6pm - Place de l'hôtel de Ville

More information : click here


Aubagne


- Christmas Lights - from November 20th -  Esplanade De Gaulle
- "Marché des santonniers et des céramistes" - Novembrer 21st to December 31st, 10am to 7pm, except decembre the 25th and january the 1st - Esplanade Charles de Gaulle
- "Crèche panoramique" -  - Cours Foch
- Christmas animation : walks with donkeys, a narrator Claire Pantel, merry-go-round...- December 5th and 6th - downtown
- Exhibition "Santons et décor aux santons" - December 11th - Ateliers Thérèse Neveu
- Sainte Barbe: Parades, foires, Santa Klaus... - December 12th and 13th - downtown

More information (in french): click here






Salon de Provence



- Italian Christmas Market "Nôelissimo" : wooden cottages, Santons, Crèches... - December 18th to 21st - Place des Centuries
- Market of Provence - December 18th to 24th, from 10am to 7pm - Cours du Centre Ville
- Christmas lights - December 4th - Place de l'hôtel de ville
- Santa Klaus castel, Christmas farm, Merry-go-round, parade, exhibition, workshops, goblins's village  - December 19th to 24th - Château de l'Empéri
- Toys Fountain for underprivileged children - Saturday the 12th of December, from 9am to 5:30pm - Fontaine moussue, place de l'hôtel de ville
- Christmas Choir - December 13th at 4pm - Eglise Saint Michel

More information (in french): click here

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Allauch
- Christmas market: nougats, calissons, foie gras, truffes...and activities- December 12th and 13th - Allauch Village (more information: click here)
- Crèche de Gilbert Orsini  - November 28th to January 24th - Galerie du Vieux-Bassin (more information: click here)
- "Descente des bergers" - December 24th from 10:15pm - Colline de Notre-Dame du Château (more information: click here)
- "Messe de Minuit" -  December 24th at midnight - Église Saint-Sébastien / Allauch Village and Eglise Saint-Laurent de La Bourdonnière /Allauch Logis-Neuf

Cassis
- Christmas market - December 4th to 13th - Place Baragnon
- Exhibition "la Féérie de Noël" - December 11th to January 4th - Centre de Congrès
- La "Crèche du Port" - December 11th to January 4th - Tourist Office
- Ice Skating - December 16th to January 4th - Place Baragnon

More information, visit Cassis's website: click here

La Ciotat
- Christmas lights - From December 4th , 6pm
- Christmas market and Santons market - December 10th to 13th, 9am to 7pm - Chapelle des Pénitents bleus et esplanade du 8 mai 1945
- Traditionnal Crèche - December 24th to February 2nd, 10am to 12am and 3pm to 5pm - Eglise Notre Dame de l'Assomption
- Provencal Crèche - December 19th to February 2nd - Musée Ciotaden



And more Christmas markets and street shows in all the provencal villages!

Arles, Istres, Baux de Provence, Martigues, Peynier, St Rémy de Provence, Digne les Bains, Forcalquier, Gréoux les Bains, Sisteron, Apt, Avignon, Carpentras, Cavaillon, Gordes, Mirabeau, Orange, Pertuis, Bandol, Fréjus, la Cadière, Sanary, Ste Maxime, St Raphaël, Nice, Cannes...