This year, the Christmas festivities in our hills and neighborhoods will be closer to the community, and the little tourist train will enliven the areas.
The celebrations will start on Saturday, November 26, in Thiole Garden, in this emblematic neighborhood of our city, where its market is one of the major institutions of our town and where history marked the liberation of our city in 1944 with blood-stained letters on marble.
Then it will continue in: Saint Barthélémy, Saint Pancrace, Saint Roch, Saint Pierre de Féric, Magnan, Saint Antoine de Ginestière, La Madeleine, Saint Roman de Bellet, and the Notre Dame and Musicians neighborhood. The events will be numerous for the delight of children and adults: makeup workshops, games, various shows, Santa’s visit, dances and music, theater, inflatable structures.
Christmas is a wonderful time to share, give, and offer some warmth and friendship. How many are isolated and alone? It is thus an opportunity to share the celebration and make Christmas a grand exchange for everyone. The Lenval Hospital is participating in this Christmas, the festival of light, as eloquently described by Mr. Rudy Salles, municipal councilor. Illuminated decorations from a drawing contest will be displayed during the festivities. Five drawings by sick children were selected.
This year, a sixth is being added, created by children from a hospital in Houston, a way to confirm our friendship with the other side of the Atlantic. Christmas is a universal celebration, one of a historical event, and without limiting it to its Christian dimension, it is a celebration of peace and harmony among men. Even during war, soldiers exchanged something other than bullets and shells on this night.
This Christmas in Nice aims to be that flash of light, that of the Star of Bethlehem and the simple joy of the shepherds. The nativity scene, despite the detractors, will be on Rossetti Square facing the Cathedral.
Calena, as we say in Niçois, so happy Calena to everyone. Christmas is coming to our neighborhoods, let’s make sure to share this moment.
Thierry Jan
