Description
A well-known event, with some 5,000 visitors in recent years.
The program includes herd rides to the mountain pastures, tastings and various events...
Each year, a different region of France is honored
Below is the program for 2025 - Coming soon: 2026
Musical and gastronomic entertainment in the village on both days: local market, oven-baked bread, herd parade, various village activities, children's carousel.....
Saturday program:
- Montée à l'estive: 12 km hike to accompany a Salers herd into the mountains - Meeting at 7:15 am sharp in Pailherols - Price: 8 €/pers. (+ 12 yrs.)
- 11:30am: Manade Martini: parade of Camargue bulls and horses;
- from 12pm, opening of the "tartines" stand + meal (sausage/truffle);
- from 2pm: opening of various stands
- 2pm: "la ronde des burons": 10-km hike accompanied by a historian and storyteller (discovery of cultural, gastronomic and environmental heritage, cheese tasting) - Price: €8/person (over 12)
-4pm Sepalteba choir in Pailherols church
- 5:30pm: Manade Martini: parade of Camargue bulls and horses;
- 6pm: parade and blessing of Bruno Amans' herd of Salers cows
- 7pm: parade of flowered charts
- from 8pm, dinner and show with Camargue singer Régine Pascal, accompanied by a horse trainer. Evening dance.
All day long, bandas and musical entertainment.
Sunday:
- From 10 a.m., opening of the local market
- 11am, parade and blessing of Bruno Amans' herd of Salers cows
- 11:30 am, opening of the festival with Régine Pascale from the Martini manade;
- 12:30 pm, cheesemaker's meal (22 €/adult - 10 €/under 12)
- 2pm, foaling mares parade,
-2:30 pm, Bruno Amans' herd of Salers cows march past to music.
3pm, parade of M Philippe Matière's herd of black-coated Salers cows.
- at 3:30 pm, musical parade of GAEC Prunet's Salers herd
- 16:00 sale and auction of pure-bred Salers steers and crossbred heifers
-4:30 pm parade of floral floats
-5:30pm Manade Martini
-6:30 pm parade of floral floats
-20:00 aligot sausage
Musical entertainment all day and various stands
Exhibitions of tractors, farm equipment and draught horses
