RECONSTITUTION HISTORIQUE
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The regulars talk about the Reconstit'. This has been taking place every year at the end of June for more than a quarter of a century! The festival mobilizes dozens of volunteers from Salonnais for many weeks and is based on a historical reconstruction. For three days of popular celebration (20,000 visitors), the city takes its 16th century clothes to tell a moment of its history: the visit to Salon-de-Provence of Queen Catherine de Médicis, who came to consult the astrologer Nostradamus. This event, organized by the Mémoires et Légendes association, allows you to discover a Renaissance village with its camps, farms, shops and taverns. You will meet a thousand volunteers and professionals, who work in period costume. The Thursday and Saturday evening parades bring together the richly adorned nobles, the Court, the soldiers, the villagers and peasants, the beggars, the fire-eaters and witches, waders and fantastic creatures leading the spectators to the great show combining circus art, street theatre, medieval songs, chivalry shows, fencing fights, beggar and missing persons races. In addition, there was a solidarity moment: a hiking race to attack the Emperi castle for the benefit of humanitarian actions. Without forgetting the evening of revelry: large tables in the city center and on the courtyards!
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