Great events this winter
Love Carlisle Day and fire show
• Saturday 7 November will see Carlisle city centre come alive with a myriad of enthralling entertainment for all ages.
• Love Carlisle day includes a spectacular 'all day' array of street theatre, entertainment, children's activities, and a celebrity 'Food Theatre', culminating in a spectacular finale.
• But that's not all - as day merges into evening, a stunning 'Love Carlisle' themed Fireshow commences, with imposing Carlisle Castle as the atmospheric backdrop.
• Hard on the heels of all that activity comes the festive highlight that is 'Carlisle - The Christmas City', when the seasonal festive lights are switched on (Sunday 15 November).
• Late-night Christmas shopping starts on Thursday 12 November and from 2 to 6 December the popular Christmas Continental Market (pictured above) in the heart of the city returns, with traders from all over Europe converging on the city for this festive favourite.
• Visitors can enjoy all this and more, with a Carol Parade and Hog Roast, ghostly guided Tours of historic Carlisle and, naturally, the obligatory pantomime.
• For further details of Love Carlisle day and Christmas in Carlisle, please call Carlisle Tourist information Centre on 01228 625600.
• Saturday 13 March 2010 Illuminating Hadrian's Wall - Visitors can enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle when the 84-mile route of Hadrian's wall is lit in March next year, through a breathtaking line of fire braziers linking Bowness-on-Solway to Wallsend. A viewing deck will be erected in the centre of Carlisle.
