Os Gambuzinos
Get ready for a journey through time with the Os Gambuzinos company, who perform ancient music on copies of period instruments.
Get ready for a journey through time with the Os Gambuzinos company, who perform ancient music on copies of period instruments.
Wandering
Saturday: 12:30 p.m. / 3:30 p.m.
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Saturday:
rue Saint-Jean: 7 p.m.
Sunday:
rue de la Pie: 10:45 a.m.
rue Saint-Jean: 12:15 p.m.
Come and meet the world’s five top combatants, who will protect and reassure you. They stroll around triggering wild laughter with their show «La Milice» (“The Militia”).
Wandering
Saturday: 12 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 5:30 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. / 1:45 p.m.
Let yourself be wafted away by atmospheric Breton, Iberian, Balkan and Oriental dances that take you all over the world.
Wandering
Saturday: 2 p.m. / 5:45 p.m. / 10:30 p.m.
Sunday: 11:30 a.m. / 1:45 p.m.
Do you hear this entrancing music? Instrument strings vibrate in harmony with struck steel, and the clear sound of the oboe sails over the roofs…
Place du Châtel
Saturday: 11 a.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 4:45 p.m. / 8:45 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. / 2:45 p.m. / 5:15 p.m.
With its remarkable performances, the official Palio d’Asti flag thrower group invites you to a traditional Italian show that goes back over 800 years!
Wandering
Saturday: 12 p.m.
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Saturday:
rue Saint-Jean: 3:15 p.m.
porte de Jouy: 6:30 p.m.
Sunday:
rue Saint-Jean: 10:45 a.m.
rue de Jouy: 1 p.m
Animation for kids
Groom the Clown entertains the audience while Dad spins the carousel. The sweet melodies of the two musicians take your little dreamers to an amazing world.
Jardin des Bréban
Saturday: 10:45 a.m. / 1:45 p.m. / 3:15 p.m. 4:45 p.m. / 6:15 p.m. / 7:45 p.m.
Sunday: 10:15 a.m. / 11:45 a.m. / 1:15 p.m. / 2:45 p.m. / 5 p.m.
Animation for kids
This miniature visual show invites you to the Santa Maria Bridge to explore new lands…
École Ville Haute
Saturday: 1:45 p.m. / 3:30 p.m. / 6 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. / 2 p.m. / 5 p.m.
Animation for kids
A welcoming encampment that will delight parents and children alike. This miniature village with its multicoloured pavilions promises games, dreams and fantasy…
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Jardin des Bréban
In this relocated workshop, you can see how stained glass was produced 1000 years ago. Discover all the tools, techniques and materials used since the art of stained glass began!
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Place du Châtel
Les Ménétriers get you dancing throughout the festival to the sound of pipe, drum and bagpipe!
Wandering
Saturday: 1:15 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 6 p.m. / 8:15 p.m.
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Rue de Jouy: 11:15 a.m.
Rue Saint-Jean: 1 p.m.
Books welcome you with open pages in the Collegiate Church of Saint Quiriace. Meet some 20 artists: authors, illuminators and calligraphers including Béatrice Florin, Martine Esparcieux, Christophe Ansar, Elisabeth Legrand, Dorothée Van Hona, Laurette Mas-Camille, Laura Derieux, Jean-Pierre Djivanidès and Emilie Loyer.
Paintings and drawings are also on the menu!*
*Non-exhaustive list
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Collégiale St-Quiriace
This choral group from the Provins region performs sacred music and medieval songs.
Collégiale St-Quiriace
Saturday: 11 a.m. / 12:45 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 4:45 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. / 12 p.m. / 1:30 p.m.
Clad in medieval garb, Claudio Quadros introduces you to medieval music, accompanied by his bowed vielle.
Collégiale St-Quiriace
Saturday: 10:30 a.m. / 11:30 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. / 2 p.m. / 3:45 p.m. / 5:15 p.m. / 6:45 p.m. / 8:15 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. / 2 p.m. / 3:30 p.m. / 5:15 p.m.
Take a trip to distant horizons with this ancient traditional music from the East, Europe, the Balkans and Scandinavia.
Collégiale St-Quiriace
Saturday: 2:15 p.m. / 4 p.m. / 5:30 p.m. / 7:15 p.m.
Sunday: 11:15 a.m. / 12:45 p.m. / 2:15 p.m. / 4 p.m.
Discover the life of lepers without risking your own…
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Rue de la Pie
Animation for kids
Come and meet the rosary-maker. He is looking for apprentices of all ages to make his wares.
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Place St-Quiriace
This comical troupe performs merry medieval farces and fabliaux!
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Rue de l’Ormerie
Get a taste of medieval construction sites with a life-size scaffold set up in front of the Collegiate Church of Saint Quiriace. You can see carpenters, tailors, stone cutters and blacksmiths at work.
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Place St-Quiriace
The Drake Hunters continue their tireless quest for the last surviving dragons. Follow them on their journey to the snow-covered mountains.
Saturday:
rue du Palais: 2 p.m.
place St-Quiriace: 5:15 p.m.
Sunday:
rue du Palais: 12 p.m.
place du Châtel: 4 p.m.
A magical trip evoking ancient perfumes and spicy rhythms, as Soñj takes you on a musical journey between East and West.
Wandering
Saturday: 11 a.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 10 5:30 p.m. / 7:15 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. / 1 p.m.
Come and meet the 4-metre-high pagan god Omolunka, not forgetting his two chimeras and the mystical shaman!
Wandering
Saturday: 11 a.m. / 4 p.m. / 6:45 p.m. / 9:15 p.m.
Sunday: 10:45 a.m. / 1:45 p.m.
Visits and shows charged
People of all ages can discover their talents as archers by competing in a contest! Selection tests on Saturday; final on Sunday.
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Cours aux Bêtes
Animation for kids
Share a special moment with your family watching medieval games, fights, dances and various events.
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Cours aux Bêtes
You will find all the trades of the Middle Ages here, like blacksmithing, calligraphy, leatherwork and rope-making.
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Cours aux Bêtes
Take a trip to the Maghreb with this encampment featuring a Berber farm with its dromedary, donkeys, goats and sheep.
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Cours aux Bêtes
Learn about the hammer, anvil and tongs under the expert guidance of La Forge de l’Histoire, which will teach you about metalworking in the age of cathedrals.
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Cours aux Bêtes
Animation for kids
Learn more about candle-making, the beekeeper’s trade and the different uses of wax and honey in the Middle Ages. Not to mention trying the honey… A treat for the taste buds!
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Cours aux Bêtes
Rediscover forgotten skills through the art of basketry. Learn to weave rattan, withies and other plant fibres!
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Cours aux Bêtes
Come and enjoy their music, songs and dances! Join them for an introduction to medieval dance and revel in a unique moment.
Wandering
Saturday :
rue de Jouy: 10:30 a.m.
rue Saint-Jean: 1:15 p.m.
rue du Vieux Minage: 4:15 p.m.
place du Châtel: 7:15 p.m.
Sunday:
rue de Jouy: 10 a.m.
rue du Vieux Minage: 12:45 p.m.
Discover the art of puppetry with “Guillemette”: a lively, playful portrayal of the pitfalls of seduction from an ironic, amusing angle.
Cours aux Bêtes
Saturday: 2:15 p.m. / 4:30 p.m./ 6:45 p.m.
Sunday: 11:15 a.m. / 1 a.m. / 2:45 p.m.
Share some festive, interactive moments! Come and try out some dances to the sound of the bagpipe.
Wandering
Saturday: 11 a.m. / 1:30 p.m. / 4 p.m.
Saturday:
place du Châtel: 6:30 p.m.
Sunday:
rue du Vieux Minage: 11 a.m.
rue de Jouy: 12:15 p.m.
Discover these three cooks, who pull a cart with a giant sausage on top! They give a comical performance of a little Rabelaisian tale about the tyranny of our desires and passions.
Saturday
rue de Jouy: 12:15 p.m.
rue Saint-Jean: 4:30 p.m.
rue du Vieux Minage: 6:30 p.m.
rue Saint-Jean: 8:30 p.m.
Sunday
rue du Vieux Minage: 10 a.m.
jardin des Bréban: 12 p.m.
Enjoy medieval dance and music demonstrations in this 13th century encampment.
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Fossés des Remparts
This 15th century encampment, both a craft village and a military camp, welcomes children and adults alike. Come and discover ancient trades and learn about the art of war.
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Fossés des Remparts
Introductions to medieval fencing and dances, illuminated manuscripts, stone-cutting demonstrations and presentations of medieval fighters’ equipment.
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Fossés des Remparts
In their encampment, the spotlight is on artistic battles! Come and watch games, skits, fights, cooking demonstrations and more.
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Fossés des Remparts
L’Ambroisie and his executioner will mount the scaffold to tell you about the fears, beliefs and punishments of the time.
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Porte Saint-Jean
Come and relive the early moments of the 100 Years War. Fight with fencing masters, request an audience with the Lord and travel back in time…
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Fossés des Remparts
Animation for kids
Your kids are the protagonists! With real armour designed for children, fun educational mini-shows are scheduled throughout the day
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Fossés des Remparts
These three barbarians have decided to attack your supposedly impregnable citadel. So they have developed a terrifying machine that is simultaneously a catapult, battering ram and cage to display hostages…
Wandering
Saturday: 12:15 p.m./ 3:45 p.m. / 7:15 p.m.
Sunday: 11:15 a.m. / 1:45 p.m. / 2:45 p.m.
Join them in their festive world, to the sound of bagpipe and drum. Enjoy the fascinating juggling and foot-tapping music of these big-hearted artists.
Wandering
Saturday: 10:30 a.m. / 2 p.m. / 5:30 p.m. / 9 p.m.
Sunday: 10:15 a.m. / 12:30 p.m.
Visits and shows charged
Housed in Provins’ oldest house (12th century), it presents many works of art belonging to Provins and its neighborhood from Neolitic times to the 19th century.
Free during the medieval festival.
Price
Reduced price: 2€ (adults and children from 6 to 12 years old)
7 rue du Palais
From 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Visits and shows charged
Our guides will disclose to visitors Provins’ underground galleries, their mysteries, fairies and history. Visit in French only.
Price
Adults: 4,50€ – Children: 3,00€ (4-12 years old)
3 rue Saint-Thibault
From 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visits and shows charged
This typical Provins house with its superb vaulted cellar used to be rented to the merchants of Toulouse when they came to town the Champagne Fairs. The scenography brings to life the main crafts and merchants of this time.
Price
Adults: 4,30€ – Children: 2,80€ (4-12 years old)
3 rue Saint-Jean
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Visits and shows charged
Symbol of the Count of Champagne’s power, this dungeon built in the 12th century had many functions: watch tower, prison, bell-tower…
Price
Adults: 4,30€ – Children: 2,80€ (4-12 years old)
Rue de la Pie
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Visits and shows charged
Discover the Flaconry through people like a real art of life: The lords of medieval West, Arab nomads in the Middle East, the Kazakh hunters with eagles in the Central Asia… You will be fascinated by the flight of eagles, hawks, falcons, kites, caracas, vultures, owls and secretary bird in perfect harmony with horses and dromedary…
Produced and realized by Vol Libre Production
Price
Adults: 12,50€ – Children: 8€ (4-12 years old)
Tickets available on-site only: Porte St Jean, Place du Châtel and at the entrance of the show.
Rempart du Cours aux bêtes
Saturday and Sunday: 2:30 p.m. / 4 p.m. / 5:30 p.m
Visits and shows charged
This stunning show will take you back to the time of knights and princesses. Celebrations are held for Thibaud IV’s return from the Crusades. Cavalcades, acrobats, dressage and juggling will sweep you into the festival. The gallop of magnificent Iberian horses gives rhythm to the spectacular stunts, jousts and incredible battles.
Produced and realized by Equestrio
Price
Adults: 12,50€ – Children: 8€ (4-12 years old)
Tickets available on-site only: Porte St Jean, Place du Châtel and at the entrance of the show.
Chemin de Villecran
Saturday: 2 p.m. / 4 p.m. / 6 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 5 p.m.
Visits and shows charged
This typical Provins house with its superb vaulted cellar used to be rented to the merchants of Toulouse when they came to town the Champagne Fairs. The scenography brings to life the main crafts and merchants of this time.
Price
Adults: 4,30€ – Children: 2,80€ (4-12 years old)
3 rue Saint-Jean
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Visits and shows charged
Discover the Flaconry through people like a real art of life: The lords of medieval West, Arab nomads in the Middle East, the Kazakh hunters with eagles in the Central Asia… You will be fascinated by the flight of eagles, hawks, falcons, kites, caracas, vultures, owls and secretary bird in perfect harmony with horses and dromedary…
Produced and realized by Vol Libre Production
Price
Adults: 12,50€ – Children: 8€ (4-12 years old)
Tickets available on-site only: Porte St Jean, Place du Châtel and at the entrance of the show.
Rempart du Cours aux bêtes
Saturday and Sunday: 2:30 p.m. / 4 p.m. / 5:30 p.m.
Animations list is not exhaustive, schedules are subject to modifications
