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The stars are about to come out in northern Florida. Beginning on November 22, St. Augustine will become a warm-weather winter wonderland as the city celebrates Night of Lights, an annual festival that hearkens back to the Spanish tradition of displaying a lighted white candle in the home during the Christmas holidays. Every year, millions of brilliant white lights line the historic streets and ancient buildings of St. Augustine, the oldest continuously-occupied, European-established city in the United states, and how you experience it is up to you. Storytellers wearing period clothing give nighttime walking tours of ancient buildings and inns, while train and trolley rides let visitors kick back as they cruise the city's narrow brick streets. Special art walks on the first Friday of December and January feature more than 30 art galleries with free holiday refreshments to help you get in the spirit. And for those who crave cold-weather holiday traditions, there's ice skating, an ice slide, sleigh rides, and an elf village. Since we take advantage of any opportunity to get out on the water, we'll be climbing aboard the schooner Freedom for a two-hour sunset cruise through Matanzas Bay, which features breathtaking views of the ancient city's skyline, lit up by a sea of twinkling lights. St. Augustine is a short drive from the nearby Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel.

[image via Coastal Living]