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Tarascon’s Fêtes de la Tarasque bring one of Provence’s great legends back into the streets that gave it life. The famous river monster is more than a festival figure; it links the town to medieval storytelling, Rhône culture and the public art of procession. Around the historic centre and the château, Tarascon stages a myth that has survived because it still belongs to local imagination. Costumes, music, parades and street gatherings turn the town into a theatre of memory. The result is unmistakably local: a legend, a name, a community and a historic setting speaking together in the language of Provençal festivity.