Just in time for holiday shopping and exploring, the Downtown Improvement Board is gifting free on-street parking to visitors during Parking Amnesty Week, Dec. 17-25. Happy holidays!

This holiday season experience music, shopping, dining, art and nightlife under a canopy of half a million white lights illuminating downtown Pensacola’s historic buildings, parks, shops and galleries.

Twice named the top holiday event in Florida, Winterfest is a month-long celebration of live performances, an Elf Parade, Santa, reindeer games, performance trolley tours and much more.

Farm-fresh produce, flowers, plants, baked goods, crafts, fine art and antiques are just a few of the items offered by vendors at the Saturday market in Downtown Pensacola.

Voted 2016 Best of the Coast: Best Outdoor Market/Farmer's Market, Best Place to Buy Local Produce and Best Free Thing to Do.

Downtown Pensacola is enjoying a new wave of cultural vibrancy. While you're here, don't miss the opportunity to check out these three small but formidable cultural hot spots that are making the downtown district a popular stop on the art circuit​ these ​days.

Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center • Improvable Cause at Pensacola Little Theatre • Quayside Gallery

One Friday evening each month, Palafox Street—of America's "10 Great Streets"—closes to traffic and transforms into an outdoor festival of art, music and food. Gallery Night is the perfect opportunity to experience downtown Pensacola's thriving art scene and eclectic mix of sights, sounds and flavors.

It's the largest public art project in Pensacola, a 3,000 sq. ft. mural painted by local artists Ashton Howard and Evan Levin. The pair spent more than 300 hours on a scissor lift high above the ground, transforming a plain brick parking garage wall into a colorful work of art.

The votes are in, and Downtown Pensacola is celebrating its selection as Florida's Greatest Place. Great Places of Florida, an award program of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association, highlights Florida's great communities and the great people that comprise them.