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July 2017
14th July – Carcassonne on Fire
Every 14th July, in celebration of the storming of the Bastille, the mediaeval City of Carcassonne lights up with one of France's largest and most spectacular firework displays
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LA FETE DU BABAU, RIVESALTES
CONFIRM DATE 2025 BEFORE POSTING from 10h Rivesaltes will become a pedestrian-only zone all day long for this fun festival in which the legendary monster, the Babau, (pronounced ba-ba-oh) reputed to have terrorised Rivesaltes during…
Find out more »Urban Day, Saint Cyprien
A spectacular demonstration of the hip, hop happening world of street sports.
Find out more »Festival Semaine Flamenco, Rivesaltes
Celebrating its 10th birthday, the Festival Semaine Flamenco in Rivesaltes has set its sights on nothing short of excellence.
Find out more »September 2017
Festival du Livre, Collioure
A weekend celebration of all things literary- and plenty for the Anglophones too!
Find out more »In the footsteps of: O’Brian, Machado, Reiser, Darnaudet
The book festival D’une mer à l’autre in Collioure, which celebrates European writers on the 1,2 & 3 September, offers a walk in the footsteps of Patrick O’Brian (English), Antonio Machado (Spanish) and two French writers, Jean-Marc Reiser and Boris Darnaudet, organized by Collioure writer, Ellen Turner Hall. Along the way you will learn about the writers who lived and worked here and hear extracts from their work.
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Festival International du Disque, Perpignan
International Record and Comic Strip Festival The Chapelle Saint-Dominique welcomes record, CD and comic strip fans for one of the largest record fairs in Europe. The Festival International du Disque (International Record Festival) is first…
Find out more »October 2017
FETE DES VENDANGES, BANYULS-SUR-MER
Local product market, grape pressing, musical entertainment in the village streets, special ’vendanges ball’, blessing of the harvest, arrival by sea of the grape harvest as in days of old when the barques catalanes brought the grapes to the beach.........
Find out more »Fête de la Science
As part of a national initiative to promote the study of sciences, two events are being held in our region, the first in Font Romeu (Saturday 7th October) and the second in Perpignan (Saturday 15th October).
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