2024
CARNAVAL VÉNITIEN DE CASTRES
Carnival
Every year in March, the "little Venice of the Tarn" is the setting for a ...Read more
2024
FÊTE DE LA SAINT JEAN
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
Read moreA firm favorite with Castrais residents, the Saint-Jean festival is built around the traditional bell-ringing of the Notre-Dame-de-la-Platé carillon, traditional instruments and music, and Occitan dances and songs. The farmers' market will be accompanied by music from the craba, the large bagpipes of the Montagne Noire, and the graile, the oboe of the Monts de Lacaune and Sidobre. Join in the great Occitan ball, with its farandoles and branles, interrupted at nightfall by the traditional bonfire around which the crowd dances to the sound of the Bufarèls!