Details of weekly and annual events near to Bagnoles de l'Orne and La Ferté Macé:

Local Markets

Monday            Briouze: local produce; plants; livestock auctions

Thursday          La Ferté Macé - large market: local produce, clothes, 

Saturday          Bagnoles de l'Orne: local produce, including organic

Summer and Autumn Spectacles, Festivals... (2006 dates)

May                Jazz Sous Les Pommiers - International Jazz Festival, Cotentin

Summer          Floral Villages Display / Competition throughout the region

July 14            Fireworks and other Bastille Day celebrations, Bagnoles and La Ferté Macé

4- 6 August      Hunting and Fishing Festival, Chateau de Carrouges

9 -10 Sep        Bagnoles de l'Orne "Automne Gourmand" Gastronomic Festival

5 - 8 Oct       International Mycology Festival, Bellême

13 - 16 October         Journées Mycologiques du Pays Fertois (Wild Mushroom Festival - guided "fungus forays" (mushroom hunting), special menus...), in the Forêt des Andaines, La Ferté Macé and Bagnoles de l'Orne region. See our Activities page for details of our own mycological activities. 

Dec /Jan    Illuminated Villages Display / Competition throughout the region

Brocantes and Vide Greniers 

(Country Fetes and Village Jumble / Car Boot Sales )   

There are normally at least a couple of these per weekend in the local area 
during the summer months. Plenty of bargains to be found. Whether you are 
interested in antique furniture, old paintings and prints, local arts and crafts 
or home decor items from the 50s to 70s (normally at a fraction of the price 
you could pay in the UK!), these are well worth exploring. A rare chance to 
practice your bartering skills in Europe. There is normally food and drink to be 
shared with the locals, and often a "ball" in the evening! In particular:

St Michel des Andaines    May

La Sauvagère                July

Bagnoles de l'Orne         August

La Ferté Macé               First weekend of September

Sample price guide

French bar ashtrays and decanters: 1 to 5 €

Ornamental Valouris vases / plates:   4 to 30 €

WWI and WWII military memorabilia  3 - 50 €

60s / 70s vintage glass lamps / shades: 5 to 30 €

Antique coffe grinders: 20 - 40 €

Old horse-drawn plough    50€

Pair of pet goats    100 € (pet passports not included!!)

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