Category: events

The Challenge 2026 de la Terre d’Argence brings the course camarguaise into the Arènes Paul Laurent on two separate dates, 24 June and 26 August. The event belongs to the living taurine culture of the Gard and the Camargue area, where the focus is on skill, agility and local codes in the arena. The challenge shows how Beaucaire’s summer calendar is connected to regional clubs, local arenas and traditions rooted in the Rhône delta.

Canet-en-Roussillon’s Saint-Jean celebration is part of the Catalan fire cycle around the Flama del Canigó. The 2026 programme places the gathering at Place Saint-Jacques and the Château Vicomtal, where the evening connects music, fire and the symbolic descent of the flame from the Canigou. The evening expresses northern Catalan identity through a shared ritual of fire, music and village gathering. The programme keeps the focus on the village setting, the historic château and the continuity of Sant Joan traditions in Roussillon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Organized since 1968, the Universitat Catalana d’Estiu brings students, teachers and the wider public to Prades for its late-August summer sessions. The 58th edition, Països Catalans Més Que Mai: Desenvolupament o Progrés, is scheduled for 17 August 2026 to 23 August 2026 at Lycée Charles Renouvier.