Top spots for a Christmas getaway
There’s no escaping the Christmas pudding in Aix-en-Provence, which hosts an annual `13 Desserts Market’ where food producers from the region bring thirteen types of dessert for tasting and sale, traditionally served at the `high supper’ on Christmas Eve. This is the most important meal of the year for locals and comprises of seven meat-free dishes, representing the seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and culminating in the famous 13 desserts, from honey to figs, brioche to biscuits, which symbolize Christ and his disciples.For a taste of the local culture and tradition CV Travel’s `Notre Dame du Val’ provides grand living for up to 14 guests and is a large country house set in 25 acres of wooded groves and lavender gardens. The house is just 4km from Aix-en-Provence, which as well as being the home of the Christmas pudding also hosts a traditional Christmas market, with stallholders in cosy chalets selling gifts, decorations and crafts, a life-sized nativity scene and its very own Santa.
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