PARIS – HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS

TEMPTATIONS AWAIT AT NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTMAS MARKETS The festive and fragrant seasonal markets of Paris are not to be missed by visitors enjoying the holidays in the city. Stalls brim with handmade ornaments and decorations, unusual handcrafted gifts and regional edible goodies. Here’s a list of some of the best-known in Paris:

• Christmas Market on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées
This is the largest Christmas market in the city and stretches from the Champs-Elysées roundabout to the Place de la Concorde.

• Christmas Market and Santa's Village at Saint-Sulpice

• Christmas Market and Santa's Village at place Saint-Germain-des-Prés

• Christmas Market at the Place des Abbesses, Montmartre

• Christmas Market at the Montparnasse Tower, in front of the Gare Montparnasse, facing the tower.

MUSEUMS –– SPECIAL HOURS & EVENTS

• The Museé d’Orsay – open late Thursdays until 9.45pm

• Le Louvre – open until 10 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday evenings. Admission is free on the first Sunday of every month.

• The Rodin Museum offers free tours to the public at 1:30 every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, and on the first and third Saturdays of the month. (A $5 admission donation is suggested to enter the Museum)