Each end of summer, La Colle-sur-Loup reconnects with its past. Visitors of all generations, increasingly numerous, rediscover the daily life of our ancestors, some with nostalgia, all with fascination.
Folkloric dances and scenes in Provenรงal costumes recreate the life of yesteryears.
From the blacksmith to the schoolmistress, including the knife grinder or the rural constable, around fifty old trades are celebrated in the joyful atmosphere of fairs of the past.
Many stalls offer local products and items made by artisans.
This year, new additions will be on Place de la Libรฉration, including the arrival of a teaching farm with workshops on wool carding, butter making, cow milking, and log skidding with a Percheron horse.
At the Jeu de Paume parking lot, there’s the Young Farmers’ Market of the Alpes-Maritimes.
In the salle de la rose de mai, a performance of old-time tales sung. In the dance hall, on the occasion of the centennial of the First World War, a photo exhibition on the war of 14/18.
As for entertainment: a traditional wedding and its procession (in the morning), wheat threshing, a parade of old bicycles, vintage cars and motorcycles, a workshop on making authentic soaps and antique polish, lavender distillation, a moonshiner, knife grinders (available for sharpening knives), a fine gold gilding workshop, street scenes, pony rides, and a small farm, etc.
