Fête médiévale de Cerisy-la-Forêt
A weekend medieval festival set in and around the ancient Benedictine abbey of Cerisy-la-Forêt, bringing jousts, costumed craft markets and period entertainment to one of Normandy's finest Romanesque monuments.
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"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
"A free village arts and music festival in the small Côte de Nacre commune of Langrune-sur-Mer, championing local Normandy artists across street theatre, circus and dance with an eco-conscious spirit."
Sâoticot
"A weekend Viking festival in the small Eure commune of Terres-de-Bord, celebrating Normandy's Norse heritage with longship displays, combat demonstrations and a Nordic craft market."
Fête viking de Terres-de-Bord
"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
"A medieval festival on the Calvados coast at Merville-Franceville-Plage, combining costumed re-enactments and a period craft market with the seaside setting of this small D-Day heritage commune."
Fête des Médiévales de Merville-Franceville-Plage
"A Michaelmas sheep fair in the wild Hague peninsula village of Teurthéville-Hague, centred on the Roussin de la Hague breed and connecting an isolated community to centuries of pastoral tradition."
Foire Saint-Michel de Teurthéville-Hague
"Every Friday summer evening at the open-air Ecomusée d'Alsace, the museum village comes alive with folk music, traditional dances, storytelling and participatory games recreating the warm atmosphere of a historic Alsatian village fair."
Fête au Village
"For its 15th edition, this summer series of piano recitals, chamber music and song fills a converted barn in a hamlet of the George Sand country with intimate romanticism across the whole summer season."
Festival de la Grange aux Pianos
"Every summer since 1991, over a thousand costumed volunteers transform Challans town centre into a living 1910s market day, complete with goat-cart rides, maraîchin folk dancing, traditional craft demonstrations and a volaille fair."
Foires à l'ancienne d'Autrefois Challans
"In its 51st edition, this specialist festival in the hamlet of Danouet near the chapel of Notre-Dame du Danouet is devoted entirely to the Plinn dance tradition of the Kreiz-Breizh, combining workshops, sonneurs competitions, a pardon and a grand fest-noz on the Feast of the Assumption."
Festival Plinn du Danouet
"The 59th edition of this harp-centred festival brings world-class chamber music and trad bal to a Creuse-valley village classified among the Most Beautiful Villages of France, in churches with Romanesque frescos."
Festival d'été de Gargilesse
"A spectacular recreation of a traditional 19th-century Alsatian wedding, staged every 14 and 15 August since 1973 with hundreds of costumed villagers parading through the wine-route town."
Mariage de l'Ami Fritz