Fête médiévale de Neuwiller-lès-Saverne

"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

"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

"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

"Alsace's oldest folk festival, held on the first Sunday of September since the Middle Ages, when the historic city of minstrels fills with medieval street musicians, costumed processions and free-flowing Riesling from the town fountain."

Pfifferdaj (Fête des Ménétriers)

"Nestled at the foot of the Vosges, the wine village of Saint-Hippolyte marks the Alsace harvest with a week-long celebration of its first new-vintage wines poured alongside local charcuterie and folk music in the village square."

Fête du Vin Nouveau

"In its 46th edition, the S'Hüsemer Bürafàscht brings together Alsatian village traditions of harvest, livestock and rural crafts in the small commune of Houssen, just outside Colmar, in a day-long popular fair rooted in local agricultural custom."

Fête Paysanne de Houssen

"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

"The Assumption Day pardon at Kernascléden draws pilgrims to one of Brittany's finest flamboyant Gothic chapels, whose fifteenth-century frescoes including a rare danse macabre form a breathtaking backdrop to procession and prayer."

Pardon de Notre-Dame de Kernascléden

"Created in 1979, this Assumption Day pardon in a hamlet of fewer than 800 people brings together thousands of motorcyclists from across France for the blessing of their machines by the village rector, a perfectly Breton fusion of ancient devotion and contemporary community."

Pardon de la Madone des Motards