Ban des Truffes de Richerenches
In one of France's most celebrated truffle-trading villages, the Ban des Truffes is the ceremonial opening of the black truffle season, drawing producers, merchants and gourmands to the medieval Templar village's market square for tastings and a uniquely perfumed winter ritual.
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"The 39th edition of this free Assumption Day festival at Sault's open-air hippodrome crowns the harvest with the French Sickle Lavender Harvesting Championship, distillation demonstrations and a large producers' market set against the backdrop of Mont Ventoux."
Fête de la Lavande de Sault
"Each Assumption Day, the high-altitude mountain village of Allos holds its traditional lakeside fête at Europe's largest natural mountain lake, blending pastoral heritage with music, community feasting and the wild beauty of the Mercantour foothills."
Fête du Lac d'Allos
"On Assumption Day, the gateway town to the Luberon fills the Cours de la République with artisan stallholders and a morning fair, then rounds off the day with a Grand Prix de boules, a waterfront firework display and a popular bal at Place Jean Jaurès."
Fête Votive et Grande Foire de Pertuis
"Famous for its cheese and its medieval bookshop, the hill village of Banon marks the Saint-Just fête votive with a fairground, DJ evenings and animated festivities that bring locals and summer visitors together on the Lure plateau."
Fête votive de Banon
"Nestled above the turquoise lake at the foot of the Verdon Gorge, the lakeside village of Esparron-de-Verdon celebrates its patron saint with a fête votive of pétanque, communal feasting and dancing with the dramatic Verdon landscape as its backdrop."
Fête votive d'Esparron-de-Verdon
"The village clustered around the mysterious resurgent spring of Fontaine-de-Vaucluse ends its four-day fête votive with traditional waiter races through the lanes, a boules championship, and evening dances beside Petrarch's famous river source."
Fête votive de Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
"A bank-holiday bread festival and patron-saint fair in the hamlet of Fierville-les-Mines in the Manche bocage, celebrating traditional bread-making alongside a rural livestock fair on La Lande."
Fête du Pain et Foire Saint-Gilles de Fierville-les-Mines
"In the 64th edition of this flagship Alsatian wine village celebration, the medieval lanes of Eguisheim fill with open vigneron courtyards, folklore processions, a wine queen coronation and lampion dancing amid half-timbered houses."
Fête des Vignerons d'Eguisheim
"A long-standing tripe fair in this Loire wine-village near Saumur, where the local comité des fêtes serves up the classic Angevin dish alongside music, a market and festive village atmosphere."
Foire aux tripes de Saint-Georges-des-Sept-Voies
"On the 15th edition of this Loire vineyard celebration, around thirty vignerons of the AOC Cheverny and Cour-Cheverny open their casks in the village centre for free tastings all day, preceded by guided vineyard rambles at dawn."
Fête des vendanges de Cheverny
"A convivial cider and fantasy festival on the Calvados coast at Merville-Franceville-Plage blending Norman cider culture with costumed medieval and dragon-themed entertainment for all ages."
Festival Cidre et Dragon
"The robed brotherhood of the Jurade de Saint-Émilion processes through the medieval village, climbs the Tour du Roi, and proclaims the start of harvest in a ceremony unchanged since the 13th century."
Proclamation des Vendanges de la Jurade