Guide to Celebrating Christmas in France

If you are planning a French Christmas this year, you may wish to stay at a French gite. This is a holiday home that you can rent. It is completely furnished by the owners. They can be found all throughout France and are ideal for your whole family.

General Features of Gites

Celebrating Christmas in France at one of these gites will provide you with more than adequate accommodations. You will be able to celebrate Christmas in France with all of the necessary modern conveniences (this includes en-suite bathrooms, televisions, DVDs and fully equipped kitchens) even though these are converted cottages that were once used by farm workers. The owners of the gite will be close by to provide you with anything that you will need in order to enjoy your French Christmas. Sometimes there are also adjacent swimming pools as well as other outdoor recreational activities available to help you with celebrating Christmas.

Normandy's Gites

One of the premier destinations for a French Christmas is Normandy. Here you will find a beautiful region with a long coastline and a spectacular countryside. There are gites in Normandy that you will enjoy spending your French Christmas at because of their excellent accommodations and lush interiors. You can spend your French Christmas in a gite that is located in the countryside, mountains or by the sea shore.

Rural French Gites

Whenever you choose to spend your French Christmas in a rural area, you will be able to enjoy tranquil, picturesque villages that have warm, generous, hospitable people in them. One of these villages where you may enjoy spending your French Christmas is Lonlay L'Abbaye. This area use to be the home of the Benedictine monastic order that was known as the St Benoit-sur-Loire. Today it is the home of the parish church, the Lonlay Abbey. Even though this church has withstood numerous challenges over the years, it has managed to exist for nearly 1,000 years now.

As you take some time to enjoy your French Christmas you may wish to take a stroll from Lonlay L'Abbaye toLe Manoir Nezement. This destination is set in the middle of 10 acres of beautiful countryside. The luxury gite that you will find here was once an eighteenth century English manor house. Today it has a fully equipped kitchen, really comfortable bedrooms and free wifi broadband Internet access for all of its guests to enjoy.

For more information on French Gites please see Gites.com