The best parties 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.

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.

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.

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

This is one of the most beautiful traditional festivals in France! Organised by the association "The Circle of Peillasque Union", the festivities allow to share and make known the strong times of the lives of the inhabitants of yesteryear, very marked by the succession of harvests and thus seasons: the villagers and the exhibitors are doing so, the time of a weekend, to revive the actions of their elders, perpetuating the traditions of wheat and lavender cutting which make the village originality. The atmosphere is at the heart of joy and conviviality. Moreover, all those who wanted it can participate in the cuts.

Every summer, on the second Sunday in June, Escragnolles celebrates donkeys. In the neighborhood of Colette, donkeys from all regions of France are gathered. Demonstrations of maréchalerie, exhibitions and presentations of donkeys and ponies, promenades walks, as all visitors.

Renaissance of a former local tradition where the villagers secretly celebrated their patron saint Clair through a long solemn procession through the streets. Rounds of tromblons, songs, folk dances and three scenes interpreted on the square of Romérage close this procession.

Once a year, the fat galline - chicken - is cooking for about five hundred guests, to remind you of the huge meal that would emerge at the end of the harvest. A demonstration associated with Templières days.