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For a genuinely unique take on xmas festivals, prepare for a visit to Taos during the course of the christmas season. The town's Native American and Hispanic influences prevail, introducing a multicultural twist to the vacation season with activities like the lighting of Ledoux Street, when the fabulous street's stores, museums, studios and galleries provide music, food and drink, and bonfires to passersby's, and the boulevard is lined up with farolitos, or little lanterns, warmly glowing.

Taos's Xmas tree lighting takes place at the end of November in an event which includes carol singing and the arrival of Santa Claus in a vintage fire truck. In the times before Christmas, the town additionally observes the Hispanic practice, "Las Posadas", a candlelight processional at Ranchos de Taos Plaza, as well as a spectacle of Los Pastores, a Spanish morality play.