A big Christmas weekend in Provins, on December 10 and 11, 2022

Set only 1-hour drive from Paris, the beautiful medieval city of Provins welcomes families on December 10 and 11, 2022, for a wonderful Christmassy weekend.

On December 10 and 11, the city of Provins hosts not one but three markets to celebrate the Holidays. It features a medieval market with about sixty craftsmen and craftswomen taking you back in time, a farmers' market held by the Ferme du Châtel farm to enjoy the local specialties, and the traditional Christmas market and free entertainments for the entire family with Santa Claus.

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Several guided tours will be proposed, one themed on celebrations in the Middle-Ages, and staged tours about the "ladies and knights" or "legends and belief" in this time. Enjoy fire shows, the troubadours' banquet where you will have lunch with entertainers... It will keep you busy all weekend long.

The 2023 Medieval Christmas Market in Provins: ball, banquet and magical entertainment on the programme
The medieval city of Provins invites you to celebrate Christmas on Saturday December 9 and Sunday December 10, 2023. It's the perfect opportunity to discover this legendary medieval Christmas market in the Seine-et-Marne region, during a festive weekend of holiday magic! [Read more]

If you kids want to help out, they can with the cooking workshop to decorate Christmas cake, or even make a bake-free snowman to eat away! For this long entertaining weekend, you get it, the program will be busy likely to delight your taste buds and ears, with the Christmas window contest, the world's nativity scene exhibition... To close this fabulous festive weekend, you cna learn medieval dance steps during the ball, and dance like princesses and knights used to. The Provins skating rink will also open on the occasion, and have budding skaters from December 2, 2022, to January 1, 2023. Shall we go, then?