The Féria de Béziers is one of the major festive traditions of the Languedoc summer. From 12 to 16 August 2026, the city gathers around peñas, bandas, flamenco, bodegas, taurine events, family activities and the atmosphere of the Arènes and the historic centre. Its regional value comes from the mix of Mediterranean public festivity, southern musical culture and the city’s long relationship with bull-related traditions. The event is large and popular, while remaining anchored in Béziers and rooted in living Languedoc culture.
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Transhumance du Mont Lozère
The Transhumance du Mont Lozère is a pastoral-heritage gathering on the Cévennes mountain calendar. On 21 June 2026, the gathering starts from the Station du Mont Lozère and follows a tradition tied to flocks, summer pastures and the mountain economy of the Cévennes and Lozère. The event offers a rare chance to see transhumance not as a nostalgic image, but as a living practice connected to landscapes, breeders and seasonal rhythms. The day highlights agropastoral heritage, local products, folk dancing and the relationship between people, flocks and the mountain.
Feux de la Saint-Jean à Perpignan
Perpignan’s Feux de la Saint-Jean are a central expression of Catalan identity in northern Occitanie. The 2026 event is built around the Flama del Canigó, with the programme centred on Allées Maillol and Place de la Victoire at the foot of the Castillet. The celebration links the solstice, the Canigou mountain, music, public gathering and the symbolic transmission of fire. The event presents a living tradition shared across Roussillon and the Catalan cultural area while remaining rooted in a specific urban landmark of Perpignan.
Trilla en Fête
Fête des Vieux Cépages avec dégustation de vins, animations musicales, repas spectacle et bodega. Set for 18 July 2026, the event is at Trilla, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. The event is scheduled for 18 July 2026 at Trilla, Pyrénées-Orientales, France.
Journées thématiques sur la gladiature à Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
For two days, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges turns its archaeological setting into a living encounter with the Roman past of the Comminges. The 2026 thematic weekend focuses on gladiature and on the centenary of the discovery of the Trophy of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, linking the village to the ancient city of Lugdunum Convenarum. the programme includes historical interpreters, observe demonstrations and better understand how local archaeology, Roman public life and regional heritage connect in this Pyrenean foothill town. The weekend presents history through place-based interpretation and living-history activity.
Fête d’Inières à Sainte-Radegonde
The Fête d’Inières is a village celebration rooted in the everyday social life of Sainte-Radegonde and the countryside around Rodez. Its value lies in the way it keeps a small Aveyron community visible: shared meals, music, dancing and informal gatherings bring residents and visitors together around a place that belongs to local memory. This is not presented here as a themed tourist spectacle, but as a modest and authentic local-tradition event. The fête shows how Occitanie’s identity is carried by village gatherings, rural sociability and local summer calendars.
Feux de la Saint Jean / Focs de la Sant Joan – Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste
In Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, the Feux de la Saint Jean, or Focs de la Sant Joan, connect the village to one of the strongest living traditions of Catalan northern Occitanie: the Flama del Canigó. Around 23 June, fire is shared from place to place as a sign of continuity, fraternity and attachment to the mountain. The celebration is also tied to sardanes and to the Saint-Jean bouquet, made with plants that carry protective and seasonal meaning. The celebration presents Sant Joan as a living Catalan ritual in Vallespir, with fire, music and local custom at its centre.
Fête de la Châtaigne de Saint-Pons-de-Thomières
The Fête de la Châtaigne is a seasonal gathering built around one of the emblematic products of the Haut-Languedoc. In Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, the weekend brings together chestnuts roasted over wood fires, local producers, food stalls, artisan makers and the atmosphere of an autumn market in the old town. The event is culturally relevant because it links landscape, traditional food resources and the small-scale know-how of growers and craftspeople. It offers a concrete way to understand terroir: not as a marketing label, but as a lived relationship between a mountain area, its products and its people.
Total festum
se tiendra cette année les 19 et 20 juin 2026 au Pont-de-Montvert! Programme à venir. Le Pont-de-Montvert, 48220 Pont de Montvert – Sud Mont Lozère hosts the event on 19 June 2026 to 20 June 2026.
Detours du monde – selim trio
EN PARTENARIAT AVEC LE MUSÉE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE JAVOLS SELIM TRIO Avec cette nouvelle création en trio, Selim ouvre un nouveau chapitre de son parcours musical. On 13 July 2026, it takes place at Peyre en Aubrac, France.