Marché de Noël à Saint Quentin, France
Saint-Quentin is a town, Hauts-de-France région, northeastern France. The town is situated on the slopes of a hill on the right bank of the Somme River at its junction with the Canal de Saint-Quentin. An important medieval pilgrimage town, Saint-Quentin was besieged in 1557 by the Spanish, and in 1871 it was captured by the Germans during the Franco-German War. It was almost completely destroyed in 1918 in World War I.
Marché de Noël à Laön, France
Laon is the capital city of Aisne department in Picardy, northern France, between Saint-Quentin and Reims. Perched on a rocky hill, known as an ‘outlier’, the oldest part of the city (the upper town), looks down from a height of 100 metres over the plains of Champagne and Picardy below. The narrow plateau on which the city was built is mostly made of sand, clay and limestone which were ready sources of building materials for the development of the town and a source of underground quarrying. The walled city was built on this sedimentary base in the second part of the 12th century and a magnificent cathedral sits on the top of the hill dominating the view. Laon is divided into two districts (the upper town and the lower town) and a cable car called the Poma links the two. There are approximately 30,000 residents in the city who are known locally as the Laonnois (pronounced ‘Lanoi’).
The market was actually closed when I was there as it was a Wednesday night but I still shot some great photos.