Friends of Downtown and downtown Pensacola merchants are giving you the chance to win a daily prize and a $1,000 grand prize for the holidays! A receipt for at least $10 from any downtown restaurant, bar, gallery or shop dated Nov. 9-Dec. 18 is all you need to enter. Click to read the rules and upload your receipts!

Friends of Downtown Pensacola will help Pensacola Foo Foo Festival pop the cork on its annual 12-day cultural celebration Nov. 3rd with the unveiling of 4,000 colorful bubbles hovering over the city’s historic center high above Intendencia between Jefferson and Tarragona Streets.

For the first time in its 15-year history, Palafox Market will add four Wednesday evenings into the schedule. For this special holiday event, the market will cover one block of Palafox between Garden and Chase, streets with 50+ lighted vendors, live music, and special appearances from the Grinch!

One Friday evening each month, Palafox Street—one of America's "10 Great Streets"—closes at 5pm 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.

Join us on Saturdays for the award-winning Palafox Market from 9am-2pm, rain or shine—named Florida's Best Farmers Market by Southern Living magazine. Shop for farm-fresh produce, plants, baked goods and more at the event that's consistently voted "Best Farmers Market" and "Best Free Thing to Do." 

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.

Consistently named the top holiday event in Florida, Winterfest is a celebration of live performances and spectacular themed trolley rides throughout downtown Pensacola, along with Santa and his elves and a cast of your favorite holiday characters!

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.