Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
May 14-25
Cannes Film Festival, Cannes (
www.festival-cannes.fr
)
May 22-25
Monaco Grand Prix, auto race, Monaco (
www.yourmonaco.com/grand_prix
)
May 29
Ascension
June 6
69th Anniversary of the D-Day Landing, Normandy
June 8
Pentecost
June 9
Pentecost Monday
Mid-June
Le Mans Auto Race, Le Mans—near Loire Valley (
www.lemans.org
)
June 21
Fête de la Musique, concerts and dancing in the streets throughout France
July
Nice Jazz Festival (
www.nicejazzfestival.fr
); Avignon Festival, theater, dance,
music (
www.festival-avignon.com
); Beaune International Music Festival; Choré-
gies d'Orange, Orange (performed in Roman theater,
www.choregies.asso.fr
);
“Jazz à Juan” International Jazz Festival, Antibes/Juan-les-Pins
(
www.jazzajuan.com
)
; Jousting matches and medieval festivities, Carcassonne;
Nights of Fourvière, Lyon (theater and music in a Roman theater,
www.nuitsdefourviere.org
)
; Colmar International Music Festival (
www.festival-
colmar.com
)
; International Music and Opera Festival, Aix-en-Provence
July 5-27
Tour de France, national bicycle race culminating on the Champs-Elysées in Paris
(
www.letour.fr
)
July 14
Bastille Day (fireworks, dancing, and revelry all over France)
July-Aug
International Fireworks Festival, Cannes (
www.festival-pyrotechnique-
Aug 15
Assumption of Mary
Late Aug-Sept
Jazz at La Villette Festival, Paris (
www.villette.com
)
Sept
Fall Arts Festival (Fête d'Automne), Paris; Wine harvest festivals in many towns
Early-Mid-Oct
Grape Harvest Festival in Montmartre, Paris
Nov 1
All Saints' Day
Early Nov
Dijon International and Gastronomic Fair, Dijon, Burgundy
Nov 11
Armistice Day
Late Nov
Wine Auction and Festival (Les Trois Glorieuses), Beaune
Late Nov-Dec 24
Christmas Markets, Strasbourg and Colmar
Dec 8-11
Festival of Lights (celebration of Virgin Mary, candlelit windows), Lyon
Dec 25
Christmas Day
Dec 31
New Year's Eve
