It’s your one chance to tour the estate at night, with the fireplaces lit, carolers singing, gingerbread baking and candles glowing. And there’s no better season to visit than Christmas. You have to buy tickets ahead, reserve your restaurants, choose your hotel, but once you’re there, once you’re inside, it’s like stepping back in time. And I’ve never been more charmed, more delighted, or more inundated with the Christmas spirit than during the Candelight Christmas evenings I’ve spent at the Biltmore. I’ve experienced holidays at home and abroad. I’ve visited wineries and champagne cellars.
I have been to French Chateaus in France ( check out the post about that by clicking here!). So if you have you ever longed to spend your holidays in a 250-room French Renaissance chateau, warming yourself by a roaring fire, the scents of pine and cinnamon perfuming the air, carolers harmonizing faintly in the background while you sip estate-made wine, then put that Passport away and look no further than a five and a half hour flight back east to celebrate Christmas at the Biltmore Estate. And there’s simply no better place, in my opinion, to celebrate than in Asheville, set deep in the mountains of North Carolina, and home to the Biltmore Estate, because nothing says Christmas like a 35 foot Fraser Fir laden with gifts and ornaments large enough to hold court alone under our most humble household trees. The sights, sounds and smells of the season are all around.
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It’s a joyous time of year, when the brisk chill of winter whirls and swirls, when the cheery lights of the season wink on in windows and dangle, glowing and swaying from shingles and shrubbery in homes across the world.