Vendanges 2024

 

 

- ALL WEEKEND -

 LA VILLAGE EN FÊTE 

Fête des Vendanges 

 Ends Sunday October 13, 2024

 

Marching Monday

 

From this year's colorful Montmartre grape harvest parade in celebration of France's many diverse wines.

 

Starting point: cabaret Lapin Agile, just across from Paris' symbolic last vineyard

 

 

Below: marching bands, dancers, regional costumes

 

Tomorrow: The Tasting Trail

              

                 

V for Vendanges

 

 Last day to experience Montmartre's annual autumn grape harvest/wine festival.

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More photos Monday

 

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 - ALL WEEKEND -

 LA VILLAGE EN FÊTE 

Fête des Vendanges

Ends Sunday October 15

 

 

Fête accompli

Scenes from last weekend's annual wine harvest parade celebrating the wine-producing regions of France.

Ergo sum

A sign in a wine shop says, "I drink therefore I am."

- Montmartre 2019 Fête des Vendanges grape harvest festival -

October 9 - 13

Tastings - dancing - parade - ateliers - performances - exhibits...

Montmartre en fête #2

More scenes from Montmartre's annual wine harvest parade including Capoeira, the Brazilian martial art that combines elements of fight, dance, music, and acrobatics.

Below: behind the parade a clean sweep at the end

  

- Tomorrow: and the party went on... -

- Festival street food, Montmartre village -

Montmartre en fête #1

All weekend the butte was alive with festivities celebrating the grape harvest.

Above: scenes from annual parade

Warming up

With the holidays closing in, chocolat chaud, hot spiced wine and tea stalls are popping up on squares such as this one at l'Église Saint-Pierre. 

Harvest parade

Montmartre's mad annual vendanges parade celebrates the fall wine harvest, with regions from all over France represented.

Below: one of several drum bands winding through streets

And here they come... Best results w/earphones

 

Revolutionary

  High on the butte a tradition of young sans-culottes keeps the spirit of the French Revolution alive.