Little pieces of light

The summer season may be coming to an end, but the party and good humour is alive and well in Grasse, where they celebrate an Oktoberfest...

The Cannes Yachting Festival has been held every September since 1977 in the sparkling Bay of Cannes. It is the first boat show in the...

The Fete de la Saint-Jean is said to have been imported from neighbouring Catalonia in Spain but is now undoubtedly a fully french...

The Plages Électroniques in Cannes is one of Europe's biggest beach parties, and attracts festival-goers from all over the world. They...

Three-times Formula One champion Nelson Piquet famously said that racing at Monaco was "like trying to cycle round your living room", but...

Celebrating “Love, music and feet in the water”, the Crème Festival is a three-day music festival that takes place in mid-June in the...

Enjoy a reenactment of a great moment in history; the 1815 landing of Napoleon Bonaparte in Golfe-Juan! Discover the Imperial Village...

Flamenco is a Spanish art form made up of three parts: guitar playing ("guitarra"), song ("cante"), and dance ("baile"). It originated in...

Nice organises a large annual "Le Village de Noël" in the central Albert 1er Gardens that features an ice rink, a large Ferris wheel, and...

Winemakers, merchants, guilds, and lovers of fine wine gather in Avignon (in November) to celebrate the arrival of the new vintage of the...

Trivia question for you. When does summer officially end? Well in this particular corner of Provence, the answer is the last weekend of...

Every summer Arles in the Bouches-du-Rhône hosts an international photography festival. This beautiful Provençal town (and site of famous...

In June, many seaside villages across the Riviera celebrate the festival of Saint Pierre, the patron saint of seafarers. In the past...

Over 50 years ago, one of the first pop and rock festivals in France - the "Riviera Festival" took place in Valbonne. Like Glastonbury...

The Monte-Carlo Masters is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, which borders...

Cannes is renowned as the world's most prestigious, glamorous, and occasionally controversial film festival. In a sense, it is the...

The International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo is an annual event held in Monaco every January. The festival was created in 1974 by...

When the french say "faire un bœuf" it's our equivalent of a "jam session" when the bands play improvised solos and vamp over tunes,...

Every year, the Menton Lemon Festival captivates over 200,000 visitors. You can enjoy the enchantment of the Golden Fruit Corsos and the...

The Var is famous, in late winter, for the explosion of colour that is Mimosa season. There are, remarkably, 200 different varieties...