Nîmes Harvest Fair: Highlights and Festivities Announced for the 2024 Vintage

Lots of people to manage during the famous abrivados at the Nîmes feria. Midi Libre – ALEXIS BETHUNE

Le ban des vendanges va gagner en volume cette année. Midi Libre – Y. B.

The Vendanges Feria (September 12-15) has scheduled many festivities, once again. Our selection so you don't miss the must-see events of this event.

To conclude the summer with temperatures that are more reminiscent of autumn, the Vendanges Feria (September 12-15) and its procession of colorful entertainment will warm the hearts. The promise of Frédéric Pastor, deputy for bullfighting, festivities and repatriates who speaks of "very popular festivities". A quick overview of the highlights is in order.

Abrivado par trois fois

The City of Nîmes reserves a good place for the abrivado with two classic routes on the rue de la République with the Aubanel manade on Friday September 13, 6 p.m., and on the avenue Jean-Jaurès on Sunday 15, at 1 p.m., with the Labourayre bulls. But we will remember the abrivado on Saturday afternoon, 3 p.m., with the Tommy Maire herd at Carré Saint-Dominique, at Chemin-Bas in Avignon.

The herdsman is getting ready to come with nine horses and six bulls accustomed to this kind of abrivado: “Whether it's on Jean-Jaurès or Chemin-Bas, it's the same. At the feria, you have to control the large crowds. The youth of Nîmes often come because it is a free show."

The improved grape harvest ban

The grape harvest ban will be improved this year with more colorful horse-drawn carriages, but still folk groups to parade and exhibit the Camargue and Provençal traditions that please the general public during this feria. The meeting is set for Sunday, September 15, 3 p.m., starting from Boulevard Courbet before heading to Libération, Victor Hugo and Maison Carrée. Local troupes that we will also find that Sunday during the folk mass at Saint-Castor Cathedral.

Finally lunch in the meadow!

The news is not bad in this feria with the appearance on the program, finally, of a lunch in the meadow! It will be shared on Sunday, September 15, from 11 a.m. to noon, on the Bosquet side, where the bullfighting and traditions area will be set up. And there will even be cows for the youngest, just to help them digest.

Feria for all generations

The City likes to offer festivities that bring generations together. But sometimes, when it comes to entertainment, there will be two places, two atmospheres. Indeed, Feri'Ados offers at Le Bosquet a discovery of bullfighting traditions for the youngest this Saturday, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, and from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The teenagers who are impatiently waiting for the return of the swimming pool bull in feria for Pentecost…

The elders