Chestnut Festival

Every year at harvest time, the Chestnut Festival is held in Collobrières.
Held on the last three Sundays in October, they bring together a large number of craftspeople to showcase their skills. It's a great celebration of local produce, bringing together craftspeople, producers and artists selected according to quality criteria.

This event helps to promote the economic and agricultural activity of Collobrières, a rural commune in the Maures mountains.

Organisation: Collobrières Town Hall

2024 programme: underway.

2023 programme:

Great chestnut farmers' market, French and European local produce, crafts.

Entertainment: folk music and dance, strolling music group.

Demonstrations of traditional crafts: glassblowers, woodturners.

Sunday 15, culinary day: cooking workshops, culinary demonstrations, mini-farm.

Sunday 22, international day:
10h Inaugural parade: delegations from the twinned towns of Frabosa Sottana and Pujerra and the Japanese town of Yamae, brotherhoods, folk groups, Italian flag-wavers.
10:30 Solemn Mass

Sunday 29, Craftsmen's Day:
Demonstrations of crafts and wool working. The old crafts of Giens.