The Marché campagnard Les trésors du Santerre brings farmers, producers and local sellers together in Chaulnes. The monthly rhythm makes it part of everyday rural culture rather than a one-off fair, while the Santerre name gives the event a clear territorial anchor. Visitors come for regional food, producer contact and a market atmosphere that reflects the agricultural landscape around Chaulnes. The market gives the Santerre a visible public meeting point and keeps local supply, village life and seasonal buying in the same place.
Region: hauts-de-france
Guided Tour of the Amiens Belfry
This guided visit focuses on the Amiens Belfry, a civic monument closely tied to the city’s history. Participants meet at Place au Fil before entering a story of bells, municipal memory and hidden details that are easy to miss from outside. The tour gives the monument a human scale: instead of seeing the belfry only as a landmark, visitors hear how it became part of local identity. It is a compact heritage experience for anyone who wants Amiens history told through one of its most symbolic buildings.
Balades contées en picard at Étang Saint-Ladre, Boves
Balades contées en picard invites visitors into the Étang Saint-Ladre reserve through stories shaped by local language and landscape. Led by storyteller Mariel Demaye, the walk blends humour, strange tales and nature observation in a protected site near Boves. Picard is heard here as a living voice rather than a museum object, carried by rhythm, humour and familiar turns of speech. Families and walkers hear regional oral tradition while moving through marsh, paths and natural habitats tied to local memory.
Les Tentaculaires 2026 – Street Arts Festival in Amiens
Les Tentaculaires turns Amiens public spaces into stages for three days of street arts. Circus, dance, theatre, music and installations move through the city rather than staying behind the doors of a single venue. Residents, families and visitors meet performance in streets, squares and everyday routes, which gives the festival an open and communal character. By bringing contemporary creation into daily urban spaces, Amiens builds a lively summer identity around art in the open air.
Les concerts du marché at Basilique Saint-Quentin
Les concerts du marché offer a short musical pause after the Saturday market in Saint-Quentin. The organ concerts take place at the basilica, giving visitors a simple way to connect everyday town life with a major heritage monument. The 2026 summer dates feature morning performances that are approachable, free and rooted in the rhythm of the city centre. The series keeps organ music visible outside a formal concert-hall setting and places sacred architecture within a living local routine.
Marché de Parfondeval – Local Producers in the Aisne
The Marché de Parfondeval is a small monthly producer market in one of the Aisne’s most distinctive village settings. Local artisans and producers gather on Rue de la Place with fresh goods, regional food and simple direct sales. The experience is intimate rather than spectacular: visitors meet a rural village through the people who grow, make and sell there. Its terroir angle comes from that direct connection between local produce, a named place and a regular village ritual.
Festival de musique de Saint-Riquier 2026
The Festival de musique de Saint-Riquier is a long-running cultural rendezvous in one of the Somme’s most recognisable heritage settings. Since 1985, the festival has combined artistic ambition with a strong sense of place, bringing established performers and young Samarian musicians into the same summer programme. Its identity depends on Saint-Riquier as much as on the concerts themselves: the town’s architectural and historical presence gives the event depth. Music, heritage and local participation meet here in a compact, well-identified destination.
Les Nuits Secrètes 2026 in Aulnoye-Aymeries
Les Nuits Secrètes is one of the cultural markers of Aulnoye-Aymeries and a major summer rendezvous in the Sambre-Avesnois. The festival brings contemporary music, discovery routes and a town-wide atmosphere to a place that has built part of its cultural reputation around this event. Its name, location and audience habits are now closely linked: visitors come for concerts, but also for the experience of a northern town turned into a festival setting. The 2026 edition continues that identity over three days in July.
Au-delà de toutes les mers – La Condition Publique, Roubaix
At La Condition Publique in Roubaix, Au-delà de toutes les mers brings together artists whose work crosses Morocco, France and the wider Mediterranean world. Presented within the Saison Méditerranée 2026, the exhibition uses contemporary art to speak about migration, language, memory and cultural circulation. Visitors encounter a Roubaix cultural venue in dialogue with Rabat and with artists shaped by more than one shore. The result is a regional cultural stop with a wider horizon, showing how a former industrial city can host Mediterranean histories, diasporas and creative exchange.
Villa Cavrois Guided Tour: “La villa en perspective(s)”
This guided visit offers a direct way into Villa Cavrois, the modernist landmark designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens in Croix. In one hour, the tour connects the villa’s rooms with its materials, furniture, lighting, restoration choices and domestic innovations. The guided format adds context to details that can pass quickly on a self-guided route. Rather than presenting the monument as a static house, the visit shows how architecture, design and everyday life meet inside one of the most recognisable heritage sites of the Lille metropolitan area.