Upcoming Events

🎄Important update on today’s holiday events!🎅🏽 🛍 HOLIDAY HAUL 5:00 The event is still happening from @shops_of_palafox so head downtown for deals and promos! Santa will be visiting different shops on Palafox starting at 5pm. 🎅 PHOTOS WITH SANTA—NEW LOCATION! 3-4:45 Head to @corals_closet_pensacola at 114 Palafox Place beginning at 3pm for photos with Santa (bring your own camera). He will be there for picture until 4:45pm today. 🌻 @palafoxmarket HOLIDAY MARKET The EVENING Holiday Market will be every Wednesday beginning Nov. 20 through Dec. 18. Come support our local vendors under the beautiful holiday lights at MLK, Jr. Plaza! 💵 “ALL I WANT” GIVEAWAY Starting today, upload your receipts to downtownpensacola.com/AllIWant for the chance to win $1,000 and daily prizes including jewelry, decor, clothes, dinners, drinks, tickets and more! You’ll get one entry for every $10 you spend at downtown shops, restaurants, bars and galleries. Any downtown receipt dated 11/6/24-12/22/24 qualifies. Read the full rules online. 🎄 TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY—TO BE RESCHEDULED The lighting ceremony is being rescheduled and we’ll post the new information as soon as it’s available. #downtownpensacola #pensacolalocal #Pensacola #palafoxmarket #Palafox #pensacolaevents #visitpensacola @visitpensacola @weartv @shops_of_palafox @localpulsepensacola @palafoxmarket THE BLUE TREES: ENVIRONMENTAL ART INSTALLATION with @kondimopoulos is underway, courtesy of @historicpensacola and @foofoofest ! 💙💙💙 The community is coming together starting today to install this beautiful call to environmental action, which you can enjoy along @uwf Museum Plaza in downtown Pensacola. “This change highlights ecological issues, such as the ecocide of our forests and climate change, and effects a transformation in the psyche of people by raising our social consciousness referencing how individually and collectively we shape the world we inhabit.” Konstantin Dimopoulos To learn more about trees in Pensacola history, visit the Pensacola Museum of History. #bluetrees #historicpensacola #foofoo #keepingpensacolahistoryalive #trees #downtownpensacola #pensacolaevents #visitpensacola #pensacolavibes We are just eight days away from the holiday lights in downtown Pensacola! H O L I D A Y L I G H T I N G C E R E M O N Y You can watch Santa turn on the lights in front of the Pensacola Museum of History on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 5pm. Also: 🎅🏽 Photos with Santa from 3:00-4:45 (bring your 📷) 🛍 @palafoxmarket Holiday Market 4-8pm at Plaza Ferdinand 🎄 Lighting at 5pm 🚃 Free trolley from Commendencia St. Lot to Plaza Ferdinand and Palafox St. 4-8pm 🎁 @shops_of_palafox Holiday Haul from 5-8pm Photo: @laurarbogan 😍 #downtownpensacola #pensacolaevents #pensacolalocal #PensacolaLife #visitpensacola #LoveFL #pensacola #pensacoladib #pensacolavibes #pensacolafoodie #palafoxmarket #Palafox #shopsofpalafox 🎉BLOCK PARTY! 🎉 The Pensacola Museum of Art is kicking off the 2024 Foo Foo Festival with an art-themed Halloween Block Party on Thursday, October 31, from 5-8PM—costumes encouraged! 🖼️🎨💀👻🧌🎶 Featuring live music, La Casita food truck, interactive photography, interactive puppetry with the Birds of a Feather project, and activities for all ages. There will also be a cash bar provided by the Pensacola Little Theatre for 21+ visitors. Don’t miss this fun night that will also celebrate 70 years at the Pensacola Museum of Art. This event is free and open to the public, thanks to grant funding as part of Pensacola’s annual Foo Foo Festival. @pensacolamuseum @foofoofest @lacasitapensacola @pensacolalittletheatre 📷: @uwf #downtownpensacola #foofoo #uwf #historicpensacola @historicpensacola #pensacola #pensacolaevents #visitpensacola #PensacolaLife #Halloween @visitpensacola @localpulsepensacola #pensacolaart @vacationartfully #pensacolavibes It’s a gorgeous Saturday in Downtown Pensacola🧡🍁🤩🛍️💈🍽️🍺🏈🐾🎶 #downtownpensacola #pensacola #pensacolalife #pensacolavibes #pensacolalocal #visitpensacola #upsideofflorida #pensacolafoodie #palafoxmarket It’s almost time for the @greatgulfcoastartsfest ! This year’s Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival is happening November 1-3 at Seville Square in downtown Pensacola. Hours: Friday and Saturday: 9am-5pm Sunday: 9am-4pm Children’s Festival Saturday and Sunday: 10am-4pm Admission is FREE! Be sure to visit https://www.ggaf.org/ for all the latest information! Photo: ©Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival #GreatGulfcoastArtsFestival #downtownpensacola #pensacolaevents #pensacolafestivals #foofoo #visitpensacola #PensacolaLife #pensacolalocal #pensacolaartist #pensacolaart @visitflorida @foofoofest @localpulsepensacola @palafoxmarket @visitpensacola Tomorrow is Gallery Night “Fright Night” and starting at 5pm, @gallerynightpensacola will have a spook-tacular night filled with fun, local artists, delicious food trucks and merchants all along Palafox Street in Downtown Pensacola! 🎃👻 You can find a map, list of vendors and artists and all the Gallery Night info at: www.gallerynightpensacola.org #downtownpensacola #pensacolalocal #gallerynightpensacola #pensacolaevents #frightnight #Palafox #PensacolaLife #pensacolaart #pensacolaartist #pensacolavibes It’s almost time to light up Downtown Pensacola for the holidays, can you believe it? Mark your calendar for Nov. 6, because not only will the lights come up that evening, but there will also be tons of fun things for the entire family that day! 🎁 NOON—The “All I Want” holiday giveaway launches (through midnight 12/22). Upload your receipts from any downtown merchant for the chance to win clothes, jewelry, accessories, tickets, dinners and much more, including a $1,000 downtown Pensacola shopping spree! (Daily prizes). www.downtownpensacola.com/alliwant 🎄 3-4:45PM—Photos with Santa at the Pensacola Museum of History by the tree! Bring your own camera (Free). ⛲️ 4-8PM—Shop your favorite Palafox Market vendors at the Lighted Holiday Market at Plaza Ferdinand. 🚃 4-8PM—Free trolley runs between the Commendencia St. Parking Lot (free parking), the South Palafox Parking Lot (free parking) and the Jefferson St. Garage with stops at Plaza Ferdinand and Palafox St. ✨ 5PM—Watch Santa help light up the tree and all of downtown at the Museum of History. 🎅🏽 5:15PM—Santa rides down Palafox Street. 🛍 5:15-8PM—Shop the Holiday Haul on Palafox. Visit all the participating shops for magical shopping experience and amazing deals. Santa will be walking and visiting the participating shops, be sure to keep an eye for him to say hello and take some pictures while you’re shopping and exploring downtown! More: @shops_of_palafox 🎼 5:15-8PM—Enjoy live music up and down Palafox. 📷: @laurarbogan #downtownpensacola #pensacola #visitpensacola #pensacolalocal #pensacolachristmas #pensacolalife #pensacolavibes #pensacolatodo @localpulsepensacola @visitpensacola @palafoxmarket #christmas #palafox Palafox Market has a big Fall Festival planned for Oct. 26th at MLK, Jr. Plaza and Plaza Ferdinand! Shop both locations from 9am-2pm and ride the free haunted trolley between locations starting at 10:30am 🚎💨💨💨 🕷️ Creepy Crawly Zoo 🕸️ Haunted Trolley 🎶 Live Music at MLK Plaza 🚉 Selfie Stations 🏴‍☠️ Scavenger Hunt with Prizes 🎯 Festival Games 🛍️ 250+ Vendors 🍁 Fall Themed Merch 🍕 Food and Drink Vendors *Park and ride for free from the Commendencia St. Parking Lot #palafoxmarket #downtownpensacola #pensacola #pensacoladib #pensacolalocal #pensacolalife #palafox #pensacolavibes #pensacolaevents #pensacolamarket @palafoxmarket @visitpensacola The weather is gorgeous today and downtown is in full swing! It’s a perfect weekend to shop, eat and people-watch. Two great stops: Palafox Market today until 2pm at MLK, Jr. Plaza and Plaza Ferdinand, and The Vintage Block Party from @pensacolavintagecollective tomorrow at 1pm at @thehandlebar850 . @palafoxmarket #downtownpensacola #pensacolalocal #pensacola #pensacolalife #pensacolavibes #pensacolaevents @vacationartfully @visitpensacola
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Dating back 450 years as the first European settlement in the United States, Pensacola has a rich and colorful history. The heart of the City of Pensacola is its downtown. A refreshing blend of historic resolve and cosmopolitan progress defines Downtown Pensacola.