The menu is still plentiful, but there will be a little less on the plate this year. As a result of soaring energy prices, the city of Rennes is going to cut back for the end-of-year celebrations. Always eagerly awaited, the start of the Christmas lights will be delayed by one week compared to previous years with a start scheduled for December 3. The perimeter of the illuminations will also be reduced by a third. “We have concentrated our efforts on the busiest sectors with particular attention to the new squares around the stations of line B of the metro”, underlines Sébastien Sémeril, deputy delegate for communication at events.
The daily extinction of the illuminations and fir trees will also take place one hour earlier, namely 10 p.m. instead of the usual 11 p.m. For the rest, the program remains more or less unchanged with the great classics such as the Christmas market in the François-Mitterrand mail which will open its doors on November 25 or the Christmas village which will be inaugurated on December 3 on the Place du Parlement de Bretagne. . Like last year, this is where children can leave their letter to Santa Claus until December 20 in a box specially installed by the Post Office.
A musical journey on the Place de l’Hôtel de Ville
A great classic of the holidays in Rennes, the projection show on the Hôtel de Ville will take place from December 16 to January 1 with a projection every 30 minutes from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Signed Spectacular, the show Christmas Jukebox will be “a journey around the world in music and song”, promises Benoît Quéro, founder of the company. Canceled two years in a row due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the New Year’s Eve pyrotechnic show will also make its big comeback this year on the town hall square with the theme “the little pleasures of life. »
Still as popular as ever, the carnival will finally take place on the Esplanade de Gaulle from December 3 to January 2. And there too, sobriety will be in order since the rides will stop running an hour earlier from Sunday to Thursday with the exception of Christmas Sunday.