D-7. In exactly one week, the 2024 edition of the Strasbourg Christmas market will be launched. Precisely on Wednesday November 27 at 4 p.m. with “the luminous and musical awakening of the Grand fir tree”. As always, the crowd should be there but… perhaps a little less than in previous years. When the event opened on a Friday, the day before the weekend.
Why this delay of a few days? Because the Alsatian capital is commemorating another event this Saturday: it is celebrating the 80th anniversary of its liberation. For the occasion, a big ceremony is planned in the morning at Place Broglie. Emmanuel Macron will chair it and will notably lay a wreath at the foot of the monument honoring General Leclerc, liberator of the city on November 23, 1944.
The President of the Republic will also pay tribute to the soldiers of the Koufra oath but also to the Alsatians and Mosellans who were forcibly enlisted, according to the Elysée. He is then expected at the university and then at the Struthof camp, the only Nazi concentration camp on French soil during the Second World War. Finally, the president will visit the Alsace-Moselle Memorial Museum in Schirmeck.
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The Christmas market will then have to quickly finish setting up. In total, 289 merchant chalets are planned for an edition which will last… a little longer than usual. Until after the Christmas holidays, until the evening of December 27.
