Palavas-les-Flots
On Wednesday 28 October at 3 pm, during the autumn school holidays, the Palavas arena hosts the Camargue Bull Night, a course camarguaise featuring the raseteur schools. Tickets: €8 for adults, €5 for ages 5–10, free for under-5s.
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1 letter a month, the first at the end of October: what’s on during the autumn half-term (Toussaint), addresses around the Thau lagoon and walk ideas. Free.
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On Saturday 17 October, guide-lecturer Ronan Jahény shows visitors around the Cassan priory, between monastic heritage and princely residence. The tour takes place in the afternoon; adult tickets cost €16 (€10 for students, jobseekers and people with reduced mobility, free under 7).
Run for more than 90 years by the Escolo dai Sarret with the Belles Agathoises, this festival brings folk groups and brotherhoods together around wine freshly drawn from the vats. Sunday’s programme: a costumed parade from the Musée Agathois at 10am, the New Wine mass at Saint-Étienne cathedral with the song “Lou Vi Nouvel”, a grape offering, then folk dancing on the Promenade at 2.30pm, all free of charge.
From 17 to 31 October, the Cistercian abbey of Valmagne, founded in 1139, runs "Octobre à Valmagne": meetings with craftspeople in the Gothic naves, games and afternoon snacks for families, and lantern-lit night tours by reservation.
What to do this weekend? Autumn & half-term
On 17 and 18 October, the Palais des Congrès Jean-Balladur hosts the 5th "La Grande Motte se livre" book fair: 23 authors, signings, talks, readings, children's workshops and a concert. Guests of honour: Karine Giebel and Daniel Picouly. Free activities.
On 17 and 18 October, the Cercle nautique de Palavas runs the Grand Prix de Palavas at the Maison de la mer, a regatta that counts towards the IRC Mediterranean championship. The event draws crews from hundreds of kilometres around.
Eleven days at the Exhibition Park with a Canadian village, food and activities. Open 10:00–19:00 (some evening openings). Tram T3 stop Parc Expo. From €6.