Holidays & Festivals
Provence
National holidays include New Year’s Day, Easter Monday, Labor Day, Ascension Day, 1945 Victory Day, Whit Monday, Bastille Day (July 14), Assumption Day, All Saints’ Day (November 1), Remembrance Day (November 11), and Christmas Day.
Festivals
The busiest festivals include the Nice Carnival (February), the Grand Prix of Monaco (May), and the Festival de Cannes, also known as the Cannes Film Festival (mid-May). Other events to look out for are prêt à porter (February), the Gypsy Festival in Provence (late May), Festival d’Avignon (mid-July) and the Jazz Festival in Nancy (October).
