Let’s begin the festivities the Friday 14 June with Luc Arbogast!
This artist and his exceptional voice will delight you during a great medieval concert!
Free concert, open to the public.
Find his last news on his Facebook page and on his website.
Place Saint-Ayoul
Friday: 9 p.m.
Keys to Provins handed over to town councilor and festivities.
Place du Châtel
Saturday: 11:30 a.m.
Take part in our traditional medieval ball! The joyful musicians of “Sorga” will take you through the steps of Pavans and Gaillards!
Place du Châtel
Saturday: 7:30 p.m.
Find the mythical Saturday night concert of Les Médiévales de Provins!
This year, “Saboï”, “Al Cantara” and the entertainers of “Aouta” will make us live a unique time!
Place du Châtel
Saturday: 9 p.m.
Parade in the entire city with more than 700 people in medieval costume!
This parade will be followed at 5 p.m. by the final presentation of the performers.
Streets in the festival’s enclosure
Sunday: 3 p.m.
For the first time, find them in the festival!
These Giants are from Ath, in Belgium. Ath, also known as the ‘City of Giants’, is renowned for its Ducasse, a medieval religious festival from the 15th century, classified on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Wandering
Saturday : 10:30 a.m. / 12:15 p.m. / 2:15 p.m. / 3:30 p.m. / 5:15 p.m. / 7 p.m. / 8 p.m.
Sunday : 10 a.m. / 11:15 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. / 2:15 p.m. / 5 p.m.
The official Palio from Asti flag throwers invite you to watch their extraordinary and traditional Italian performance, which was created over 800 years ago!
Wandering
Saturday: 2 p.m. / 4 p.m. / 6 p.m. / 8:15 p.m.
Sunday: 10:15 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. / 2 p.m.
Do not miss this varied and vibrant show: music, acrobatics, juggling… Festive atmosphere guaranteed!
Place du Châtel
Saturday: 1:15 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 5:45 p.m.
Show by night, Jardin des Bréban: 10:30 p.m.
Sunday: 11:30 a.m. / 1:45 p.m.
Off to Scandinavia! Returning to the 9th and 10th centuries, on the road to meet the Varangians in a rock ‘n roll surrounding: nyckelharpa, songs, bouzouki, veuze bagpipe, jaw harp, percussions…
Wandering
Saturday: 10:45 a.m. / 12:45 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 6:15 p.m.
Sunday: 10:15 a.m. / 12:30 a.m. / 5:15 p.m.
Come and meet the crew of Mytik Itak, a strange boat tossed by the waves with its fanciful passengers! A crazy musical odyssey, surfing between legend and derision!
Wandering
Saturday: 12 p.m. / 4 p.m. / 6:30 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. / 1 p.m.
Artists, musicians and jugglers mingle popular beliefs and fears to make you dance, laugh and sing!
Saturday: 12 p.m. / 2:45 p.m. / 4:45 p.m.
Concert on Place du Châtel : 11 p.m
Sunday: 11:30 a.m. / 12:15 p.m.
Animation for kids
Gathering besieging equipment and old artillery pieces, the ancestors of cannons, this show lets young and not-so-young spectators practice shooting while enjoying an educational performance.
Fossés des remparts
Continuously
Saturday: 1 p.m. / 2:45 p.m. / 5:45 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. / 2 p.m.
Be captivated by the powerful sounds of percussions, oboe, bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy… A musical journey between East and West!
Wandering
Saturday: 10:30 a.m. / 12:45 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 5 p.m. / 7 p.m.
Sunday: 10:15 a.m. / 11:45 a.m. / 1:30 p.m.
Animation for kids
When the merry-go-round of “Compagnie Gueule de Loup” starts rotating, the sweet melodies of these two musicians will lead your little dreamers to an uncommon realm!
Place Saint-Quiriace
Saturday: 10 a.m. / 1:15 p.m. / 3:45 p.m. / 6 p.m.
Sunday: 10:15 a.m. / 12:15 a.m. / 2:15 p.m. / 3:45 p.m. / 5:15 p.m.
Animation for kids
Enter into the world of animals with this singular medieval farm! Admire impressive steers walking around the streets.
Cours aux Bêtes
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Animation for kids
An interactive show played by your children! With genuine armors adapted to your children’s sizes, mini-shows with plenty of humour and an educational content will brighten your day.
Fossés des remparts
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Animation for kids
Be tempted by the Médiemomes medieval discovery course to live a stunning adventure! Be ingenious and show your dexterity to solve puzzles together…
Cours aux Bêtes
Continuously
These outlaws have become musicians and tell the stories of their former mischiefs…
Wandering
Saturday: 10:30 a.m. / 2 p.m. / 4:15 p.m. / 7 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. / 12:45 p.m.
This comic company presents you joyful scenes of practical jokes and medieval fabliau!
Rue de l’Ormerie
Continuously
Elodie presents a poetic and festive skit with her gracious multicolored partners, in total freedom.
Ecole Ville Haute
Saturday: 2 p.m. / 5:30 p.m.
Dimanche: 11:45 a.m. / 2:15 p.m.
This company from Provins approaches every aspects of the choral singing by recovering sacred music and medieval tunes.
Musée
Saturday: 11:30 a.m. / 1:30 p.m. / 3:30 p.m. / 5 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. / 11:45 a.m. / 2 p.m.
Meet Agylus & Ladzo, our funny jugglers! You won’t be able to stop laughing!
Ecole Ville Haute
Saturday: 12:15 p.m. / 3:45 p.m. / 7:15 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. / 1 p.m. / 5 p.m.
Watch the adventures of Master Cat in a hilarious comedy adapted from Puss in Boots!
Jardin des Brébans
Saturday: 3 p.m. / 6:15 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. / 2 p.m.
With their flutes, horns, oboes and drums, you will enjoy a moment of irresistible and unfettered fun!
Saturday: 12 p.m. / 2:15 p.m. / 5:30 p.m.
Concert on Place du Châtel : 10 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m.
Discover creatures of medieval carnivals… You may see strange beasts like half-man half-bird walking around the streets!
Wandering
Saturday: 1:30 p.m. / 3:30 p.m. / 5:15 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. / 1:15 p.m.
A princess perched on her moving tower is looking for her prince in the public. Will she find love? Will she meet you on her way?
Wandering
Saturday: 12:45 p.m. / 3:30 p.m. / 6 p.m.
Sunday: 10:45 a.m. / 12:15 p.m.
Historical festive music with unusual arrangements or delicate a capella polyphonies – let yourself be taken away by these three voices and three instruments!
Wandering
Saturday: 12:45 p.m. / 2:15 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 7:15 p.m.
Sunday: 11:30 a.m. / 1:15 p.m.
Come and enjoy their music, songs and dances! Join them to be initiated to medieval dances, living a moment of exception!
Wandering
Saturday: 10:15 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. / 3:15 p.m.
Concert on Place du Châtel : 7:30 p.m.
Dimanche: 10 a.m. / 11:30 a.m. / 1 p.m.
Coming from Chièvres in Belgium, they perform Medieval and Renaissance dances, accompanied by the musicians “Les Ménétriers”.
Wandering
Saturday: 11:15 a.m. / 1 p.m. / 3:15 p.m. / 6 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. / 2 a.m.
Inspired by ancient and traditional, secular and sacred repertoires, these musicians take you on a journey towards unknown horizons…
Collégiale Saint-Quiriace
Saturday: 11 a.m. / 1:30 p.m. / 3:45 p.m. / 6 p.m.
Sunday: 12 p.m. / 2:15 p.m. / 4:30 p.m.
Discover the sounds of gaita mirandesa, bouzouki and davul… a combination of highly unusual instruments promising a unique show!
Wandering
Saturday: 10:30 a.m. / 2 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 7 p.m.
Concert on Place du Châtel : 9 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. / 11:30 a.m. / 1:30 p.m. / 5:15 p.m.
Straight from the Czech Republic, this company and its music will carry you abroad, to the Iberian, Balkanic, Scandinavian worlds… Enjoy your trip!
Collégiale Saint-Quiriace
Saturday: 12 p.m. / 2:15 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 6:45 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. / 12:45 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 5:15 p.m.
In a medieval and Viking atmosphere, discover instruments such as the Luthare, the Nyckelharpa, the Harpolyre or the Irish Bouzouki… Be carried away by the gentleness and dreamlike quality of this timeless musical trip!
Collégiale Saint-Quiriace
Saturday: 12:45 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 5:15 p.m. / 7:30 p.m.
Sunday: 11:15 a.m. / 1:30 p.m. / 3:45 p.m.
Listen very carefully heavenly melodies… “Celestiaes” will carry you to various musical horizons while perpetuating minstrels’ spirit!
Wandering
Saturday: 10:15 a.m. / 1:45 p.m. / 3:30 p.m. / 5:30 p.m.
Sunday: 10:45 a.m. / 12:45 p.m. / 5:30 p.m.
At the foot of the big wooden belltower of the ‘Companie Gueule de Loup’, the strings of instruments vibrate in harmony with the stamped steel, while the clear sound of the oboe flies away above the roofs.
Place Saint-Quiriace
Saturday: 12 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 5 p.m. / 7:30 p.m.
Sunday: 11:15 a.m. / 1:15 p.m.
Whatever your age, come and try historical writing. Calligraphy, medieval illumination, pigments, tools will no longer have secrets for you!
Place Saint-Quiriace
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Learn everything about working with sheep wool, from fleece to ball. Discover all the tools and making steps and spend a magical time with your family through the various workshops.
Cours aux Bêtes
Continuously
With your family, try modelling and shaping clay into sculptures.
Cours aux Bêtes
Continuously
Enter into the lepers’ camp and discover their lifestyle, without risking yours!
Rue de la Pie
Continuously
Enter this convivial camp and let you carry by the steps of medieval dances.
Fossés des remparts
Continuously
Discover your talent as an archer by taking part in the contest of archery! Shooting range for the younger ones too. Selection trials on Saturday and finals on Sunday.
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Cours aux Bêtes
Continuously
On their Viking and 15th century camp, prepare to meet craftsmen, storytellers, apothecaries, archers and many more characters…
Fossés des remparts
Continuously
Presentation of completed and framed illuminations, explanations about materials, techniques and styles of different periods.
Collégiale Saint-Quiriace
Continuously
A camp where you will find all the knowledge of craftsmen in the Middle Ages: forge, calligraphy, illumination, weave, leather work…
Cours aux Bêtes
Continuously
Be tempted by the conviviality of this medieval camp! Linen, cauldrons and clattering mugs await you!
Allée des remparts
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Fence with the fencing masters, request to be heard by the lord and let yourself be carried away through time to relive the first hours of the One hundred years war.
Fossés des remparts
Continuously
Are they blacksmiths or stonecutters and sculptors? Go and meet these craftsmen to find it out!
Cours aux Bêtes
Continuously
These students from Paris invite you on their camp to discover dances, calligraphy, medieval weapons, juggling…
Allée des remparts
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Get involved in the Middle Ages daily life and discover medieval games, cooking of yesteryear, artistic fights…
Allée des remparts
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Become a real craftsman! Learn how to make medieval utilitarian tools and artistic objects: potteries, candles, calligraphy…
Fossés des remparts
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Visits and shows charged
Housed in Provins’ oldest house (XIIe century), it presents many works of art belonging to Provins and its neighborhood from Neolitic times to the XIXe century.
Free during the medieval festival
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.
Adults 4,50€ – Children (4-12 years old) 3,00€
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.
Adults 4,30€ – Children (4-12 years old) 2,80€
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…
Adults 4,30€ – Children (4-12 years old) 2,80€
Rue de la Pie
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Visits and shows charged
A wonderful evening show to bring medieval Provins to life! Numerous Provins volunteers act out 20 scenes in a unique portrayal of medieval Provins’ greatest moments: the epic story of Thibaud of Champagne, the feudal lords and falconry, the rose of Provins, lepers and conflicts, dances and merriment…
Price: Adults 12€ – Children (under 12 years old) 9€
Reservation to the MJC at +33 (0)1 64 60 16 77
Aux Jardins du Couvent des Cordelières, access Route de Nanteuil
7, 8, 14 et 15 June 2019 at nightfall, around 10:30 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 (4-12 years old) 8€
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
The AJECTA locomotive will bring you back to the past, for a friendly trip between Provins and Villiers-Saint-Georges (about 3 hours return trip). During this adventure, discover the original scenography of a train station telling the epic story of these historical engines and of the men who tamed them: posters and old trunks, call center, stationmaster cabin and other things from the past make up an unusual collection!
Price: Adults 25€ – Children (6-11 years old) 10€
Registration required at +33(0) 1 64 08 60 62 / contact@ajecta.org
Departure from Provins’ station
Saturday: 1:30 p.m.
Sunday: 1:30 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 (4-12 years old) 8€
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. et 6 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m., 3 p.m. et 5 p.m.
Animations list is not exhaustive, schedules are subject to modifications
