In autumn and winter, as night falls, they give us that little something extra! Magical, enchanting and enchanting, these illuminated walks attract thousands of visitors every year! What are the most remarkable illuminated walks of the 2024-2025 season? Follow our guide, and you’ll be amazed!
Lumières en Seine, the Saint-Cloud light trail
From November 15, the Parc national de Saint-Cloud will be decked out in a thousand and one lights once the sun goes down! This green space, one of the most beautiful in the Île-de-France region, welcomes Lumières en Seine, a unique sound and light show that’s more inventive than ever. Follow the light and music to enjoy a timeless and simply enchanting stroll!
📍Address: Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, access Grille Clémenceau, 92210 Saint-Cloud
📆 Date: from 15/11/2024
🎟️ Admission: €18-23
Lueur de Mantes, a huge free light trail
For the second time in a row, Mantes-la-Jolie organizes a magical nocturnal event. Discover a 1.3 km-long light trail combining digital art and more traditional scintillating scenography. A free show to delight young and old, to be discovered until February 2025!
📍Address: 31 Rue Gambetta 78200 Mantes la Jolie
📆 Dates: December 13 to February 1
🎟️ Admission: free
The Thoiry Lumières sauvages light trail
This year at Thoiry, it’s the fascinating world of Jules Verne that has inspired the new trail! Thoiry Lumières Sauvages returns at the end of October with a trail that invites you to explore different worlds after dark! From adventures in the air with Five Weeks in a Balloon to underwater diving with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, each lantern-lit world has its own animal encounters and adventures in store for you!
📍 Address: Wow Safari Thoiry
78770 Thoiry
📆 Date: from 27/10/2024
🎟️ Admission: paying
The Lantern Festival at the Jardin d’Acclimatation
Goodbye dragons, hello dinosaurs! For the 2024 version of its lantern-lit trail, the Jardin d’Acclimatation is bringing diplodocus and tyrannosaurs back to life for a few weeks. From late November to early March, some 100 luminous dinosaurs and 2,000 lanterns will transform the 6-hectare garden! Prepare to be dazzled!
📍 Address: Jardin d’Acclimatation
Bois de Boulogne, Route de la Porte Dauphine à la Prte des Sablons, 75116 Paris
📆 Date: from 29/11/2024 to 02/03/2025
🎟️ Admission: paying