Avignon, Fransa: yıl boyunca neler var

Çok kalabalık — Cheval Passion, Fransa genelinde Christmas holidays

• Festival

  Cheval Passion

  14–18 Oca · geneldeBüyük festivalKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  Five days of horses at the Parc des Expositions in the middle of January, and the one week of the winter when the hotels inside the walls sell out. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The mistral (1 Ara – 30 Nis (genelde))

Kalabalık — Fransa genelinde Winter (February) holidays, burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili

• Festival

  Les Hivernales dance festival

  3–21 Şub · geneldeSanat festivali

  Three weeks of contemporary dance across the town in February, on a scale you can still book into a week ahead. The opposite of July in every respect. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The mistral (1 Ara – 30 Nis (genelde))

Kalabalık — Fransa genelinde Winter (February) holidays, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

• Tatil

  Easter weekend

  4–6 NisPaskalya ve Kutsal HaftaKalabalıkKapanışlar

  Easter Monday is a public holiday and the long weekend is spring's first big getaway: motorways and TGVs fill, towns that draw holidaymakers get busy and some rooms are priced up, and many shops close on the Monday. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The mistral (1 Ara – 30 Nis (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Easter weekend, Fransa genelinde Spring holidays

Nisan ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Easter weekend (4–6 Nis), The mistral (1 Ara – 30 Nis (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — May holidays and ponts, Feria de Pentecote in Nimes

• Tatil

  May holidays and ponts

  1–25 MayResmî tatilKalabalıkErken rezervasyonKapanışlar

  1 May, 8 May, Ascension Thursday and Whit Monday are public holidays, and the French bridge the gaps with a day off, the pont. Expect four-day weekends of busy trains, jammed roads and full rooms in towns that draw visitors, and near-total closures on 1 May. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Feria de Pentecote in Nimes

  10 May – 15 Haz · geneldeBüyük festivalKalabalık

  Over the Pentecost weekend Nimes, 30 minutes away by train, fills with bodegas, brass bands, bull runs in the streets and corridas in the Roman arena. Loud, late and not for everyone. Kaynak ↗

Kalabalık — Feria de Pentecote in Nimes, burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili

• Doğa

  Lavender in bloom

  15 Haz – 20 Tem · geneldeKır çiçekleri ve çiçeklenme

  The lavender fields of the Luberon, Senanque Abbey and the Sault plateau flower from late June, an hour's drive away. Harvest starts in mid-July and the colour goes quickly after that.

Hâlâ sürüyor: May holidays and ponts (1–25 May), Feria de Pentecote in Nimes (10 May – 15 Haz (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Festival d'Avignon and the Off, Bastille Day (14 juillet)

• Risk

  Heatwave weeks

  1 Tem – 25 Ağu · geneldeAşırı sıcak

  Avignon sits in one of the hottest corners of France and the festival plays straight through it: the stone courtyards hold the day until well past midnight. Meteo-France runs the warnings. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Festival d'Avignon and the Off

  4–26 Tem · geneldeSanat festivaliKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  For three weeks the official programme plays in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des Papes while well over a thousand Off shows fill every hall, chapel and garage in the walls. Rooms go by spring. Kaynak ↗

• Tatil

  Bastille Day (14 juillet)

  13–14 TemResmî tatilKalabalıkKapanışlar

  14 July is the national holiday: towns hold fireworks on the evening of the 13th or 14th, often with a firemen's ball, a parade or a concert, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Lavender in bloom (15 Haz – 20 Tem (genelde))

Kalabalık — Fransa genelinde Summer holidays, burayı dolduran pazarların 6 tanesinde okul tatili

Ağustos ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Heatwave weeks (1 Tem – 25 Ağu (genelde))

Kalabalık — burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili, hava açısından en iyi aylarından biri

• Doğa

  Chateauneuf-du-Pape grape harvest

  1 Eyl – 5 Eki · genelde

  The harvest opens with the Ban des Vendanges on the first Friday of September, when the wine brotherhood in medieval dress proclaims it in the village, 20 minutes north. Cellars are busy but still open for tastings. Kaynak ↗

• Risk

  Autumn flash floods

  10 Eyl – 30 Kas · geneldeSel sezonu

  Mediterranean downpours can drop months of rain in a few hours on the Vaucluse and Gard in autumn. Rivers rise fast, roads flood and trains stop; follow Meteo-France orange and red warnings. Kaynak ↗

Kalabalık — Fransa genelinde All Saints (autumn) holidays, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

Ekim ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Chateauneuf-du-Pape grape harvest (1 Eyl – 5 Eki (genelde)), Autumn flash floods (10 Eyl – 30 Kas (genelde))

Sakin — gezginler burayı sakin olarak anlatıyor, Christmas market

• Festival

  Christmas market

  20 Kas – 31 Ara · geneldeNoel ve yılbaşıKalabalık

  Chalets on the Place de l'Horloge and down the Rue de la Republique from late November, with the provencal santon stalls beside them. December is otherwise the quietest month here. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Autumn flash floods (10 Eyl – 30 Kas (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Christmas market, Fransa genelinde Christmas holidays

• Sezon

  The mistral

  1 Ara – 30 Nis · geneldeRüzgâr sezonuRisk

  The Rhone valley funnels the wind straight past the ramparts, hardest from December to April. It takes the cloud with it, and the terraces on the Place de l'Horloge with it too. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Christmas market (20 Kas – 31 Ara (genelde))