{"id":8153,"date":"2016-12-15T03:07:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awanderfullife.com\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2024-08-02T12:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T10:31:23","slug":"marche-de-noel-christmas-fair-in-normandy-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/?p=8153","title":{"rendered":"Marche de Noel (Christmas Fair) in Normandy, France"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have the most glorious place to hold the annual Christmas market here in our part of Normandy — the huge medieval market hall in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives where the normal Monday market is held.<\/p>\n

This past weekend — the 10th and 11th of December — was the annual Marche de Noel and we were quite lucky to have a relatively mild day with lots of sunshine for the two days of markets. Much nicer than a frigid and wet weekend, eh?<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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The heart of the Marche de Noel (Christmas Fair) in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives in the Calvados region of Normandy, France is the medieval market hall in the centre of town.<\/p><\/div>\n

Just inside the entry, I hadn’t expected to find a manger set up with LIVE animals (and very well behaved ones at that!).<\/p>\n

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Manger with live animals set up inside the Marche de Noel in the medieval market hall of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The twinkling lights inside the market hall added to the festive air whilst shopping.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Yummy

Yummy cheese for sale at the Christmas market.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Each

Each stall in the medieval market hall was doing a brisk business.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A variety of marinated olives on offer.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Personalised

Personalised wine bottles for various events like birthdays and anniversaries.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More

More small stalls outside under cover.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The balloon seller waiting for some customers.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A surprising lunch option — sausages and beer from Germany from the town that is ‘twinned’ with Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Inside

Inside stalls in the Salle des Fetes across from the Market Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lovely

Lovely Christmas ornaments for sale.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We have the most glorious place to hold the annual Christmas market here in our part of Normandy — the huge medieval market hall in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives where the normal Monday market is held. This past weekend — the 10th and 11th of December — was the annual Marche de Noel and we were quite lucky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[1591,61,1028,54,296,1400,98,209],"tags":[563,695,62,1710,1630,80,1711,47,360,1700,31,143,958,959,11],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life-2","category-europe","category-festivals-and-events","category-food-and-drink","category-france","category-market-or-markets","category-shopping-2","category-travel-2","tag-calvados","tag-christmas","tag-europe-2","tag-festive","tag-france","tag-holiday","tag-marche-de-noel","tag-market","tag-normandy","tag-saint-pierre-sur-dives","tag-shopping","tag-tourism","tag-tradition","tag-traditional","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLnqP-27v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9137,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions\/9137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}