The best parties Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

In mid-September, the old city revives the times of the past, when the streets still raisonnaient from the horses, each takes the traditional costume of Provence in order to rediscover the son of the fifer and the tambourines his past. Its heritage of tradition and ancestral knowledge. At the village's chance, you will encounter beautiful ladies, sun and hats, proud gentlemen with a black hat.

Rediscover the scents and tastes of the artisanal manufacturing products where ancestral knowledge blends. Many trades are represented, ferronnier, blacksmith, stone tailor, vannier, potter, santonnier, lavandière, dentelière, rouet, rouet, and many other trades.

An artisanal showcase, demonstration of paintings on glass, wood, a choice of local products - honey, lavender, oil and olive - tasting over the course of the day, all in an old atmosphere.

Organised by the association Les Amis du Four du Mitan, this animation celebrates bread, with demonstration of wheat pressing, blessing of breads, tastings and sales of local products, Provençal meals, in a mood of the beginning of the century, with groups of traditional costumes.

This festival combines wine tasting with a musical concert in exceptional places. For its 11th edition, sixty concerts are scheduled in forty prestigious estates, from the Var to the Aix region, including the castles of Fonscolombe, Beaupré, Seuil or La Gaude and even in the Luberon. The musical program is eclectic, always of high quality and often the occasion of beautiful surprises, from jazz to classical music through world music. Installed in comfortable deckchairs, you can dream under a starry sky.

Confetti, costumes and giant, colourful, fairy-tale parades, animated by thousands of people dressed up from all over the world... This is the atmosphere that takes over the streets of Nice every year in February, and has been for over 120 years. This Nice tradition is not just a confetti battle: it embodies the history of the city. On the programme: carnival parades, day and night, the famous Battle of the Flowers and the ritual of the King, burnt on the last day of the event on the beach, punctuated by a grandiose firework display.

It is the most festive event of the year during which the town is transformed to celebrate lavender, this small blue flower, the city's emblem. For the occasion, between 10,000 and 15,000 people attend the event each year. On the menu: parades by day and by night with decorated and illuminated flower floats, musical demonstrations, costumes and cultural demonstrations by international groups, fireworks displays, fairground, bowls competitions, garage sale, festival dance... Since 1900, lavender has made Digne les Bains and the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence the leading producer of lavender and lavandin in the region. During the celebration, also attend demonstrations of distillation of this fragrant plant and leave with a few sprigs of lavender whose sweet scent will long perfume your drawers and cupboards.

Since 1971, every year in July at the Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer and Domaine Paul Ricard in Méjanes (near Arles), the Horse Festival is taking place. This Feria of the horse brings together the greatest equestrian artists (Lucien Gruss, for example) and the horse becomes king on flamenco air. The programme is wide (show sound and light, bullfighting… on horseback, contests, demonstrations of equestrian art and Du, all on music background (wineries, peñas, bandas…). It is the annual rendez-vous of all chevaux and camarguaise culture: this clearly means thousands of people!

The association for the preservation of heritage and knowledge of the Seillonnaise tradition organizes a day around the harvest, with the hype of wheat to the roll of stone, cooking in a traditional oven and making unleavened bread.

Every year as Christmas approaches, merchants settle in their wooden chalet on Masséna Square and around the Coulée Verte on more than 3,000 m ². To come to the Christmas market is to plunge into a fairy tale: animation, craftsmen and creators, outages, bands, puppets, puppets, regional products, confectionery… Every winter, a theme is honored. The Christmas village is a nice way to immerse itself in the atmosphere of the holiday season.

He was believed to have made a cross on the Basket Day after his disappearance in 2014. So the surprise was put in 2015 when he returned. Finally, because it has not been fully understood whether it has kept its name so dear to the Balearic Islands, or whether it is now called the'Summer Day '. In the past, 20 editions were born with a general mobilization of the inhabitants and thousands of people coming to attend. In the streets and squares of the Moulin, du Refuge, Pistoles, the inhabitants sell drinks and specialities from their culture (samossas, Provencal pie, cakes.) and drinks of all kinds. Together with the associations they create an extraordinary event that attracts an incredible crowd to dance to detonating rhythms, play in family the afternoon thanks to various animations: games, initiation dance and others (hip hop, zumba, boxing, juggling, creative workshops…), street shows, show, ball, creations of craftsmen's workshops through the streets and squares of the shopping cart. An absolute need!

The celebration of the sun and the flowers. Chars, recouverts, bands, bands, bands, bands, and cavaliers are also available.