Every season has its own traditional festivals

The peak of the festive season. Feasts, processions, patron saint’s days, flower festivals, transhumance… From the coast to the highlands, summer pulses to the rhythm of tradition.

The season of harvests and flavours. Chestnuts, grape harvests, local fairs: the highlands are laying on a feast.

Carnivals, parades, flower battles: the Côte d’Azur celebrates winter in style. And in the villages, the oldest traditions live on.

The warmer months are just round the corner and the villages are coming to life. It is the time for the first patron saint festivals, for celebrations adorned with flowers — violets, roses, orange blossoms — and for springtime traditions that mark the return of life.