Markets in Languedoc-Roussillon. Is anyone in the know?

[josejuan]

Markets in Languedoc-Roussillon. Is anyone in the know? I'm interested in running a stall on the local markets in the Aude or Pyrenees-Orientales regions, especially busy craft based events or mixed products street markets.

I'm a landscape photographer currently doing Farmers Markets in Yorkshire, but looking to start attending markets throughout the area as well as northern Spanish Catalunya.

Any information or contact details for the events or markets would be greatly appreciated. I'm aware of having to approach Le Mairie or the local Chambers of Commerce to get permits etc, my interest is more along knowing which markets or fairs are good or interesting, so I can go and have a look.

Thank you in anticipation, jose juan

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[thumbelina]

Welcome to the forum;

http://www.anglophone-direct.com/Market ... he=markets

I would suggest, probably, that the best markets in the PO for you, would be :

Collioure
Ceret
Perps
Argeles summer market (log cabins every evening)

[john]

I'd agree with Thumbers.

Certainly Perps tourist office used to do an A4 handout that listed all the PO markets,so that also may be a good place to start.

The main ones in Spain are;

Figueras (Thu)
Roses (Sun)
Besalu (Tue)
Port Bou (Fri)

[cufc]

Prades on Tuesday is also good.

[thumbelina]

This may also help

http://www.tourismedeterroir.fr/Les-Mar ... htm?lng=FR

MARCHÉS SAISONNIERS

Banyuls sur Mer: le vendredi de mi-juin à mi-septembre, 9h -20h
Castelnou: le mardi de mi-juin à mi- septembre, 10h - 19h
Port-Argelès: le mardi matin de juin à septembre
Mosset: le dimanche matin en été

Ceret also do a Tuesday evening market in the summer

[josejuan]

Thank you to all of you for the responses to my post.

I only joined up yesterday, but the service is very good here!! In half an hour from putting up the post the response has been fantastic, with good ideas from all of you and exactly the areas I'm looking for.

Wow- thank you, jose juan

[mpprh]

A base for further research, but plenty to consider ! :

www.the-languedoc-page.com/tourism/lang ... arkets.htm

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Tourbes Wednesday General
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Uzes Saturday General & flea market
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Uzes Sunday Brocante
Uzes Wednesday Food
Vacquieres Wednesday General
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Valras plage Friday General
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Peter

[Santiago]

You have some very nice photos there.

I'll be honest. They look too classy for a lot of the markets here. Possibly somewhere like Ceret, Collioure and Castelnou might work but most people are there for fruit and veggies, some charcuterie and perhaps one or two small gifts. Some of the markets are run by associations exclusively for their members - and you can't join. Castelnou is like that.

If you've done well at UK Farmer's Markets though, perhaps they are not that different, although there is nowhere like Harrogate or Ripon here and all the wealthy French tourists are on the other side of the Rhone.

So many Northern European tourists fly low-cost that they have no space for anything. However, if you can encourage them to buy and post it to them it might work.

You could look at more permanent exhibition sites in towns like Ceret, Collioure and Perpignan but I think you will be better off south of the border where there is more wealth and more local tourism. You know that area better as well.

[blackduff]

A few months back some person was mentioning that he couldn't get a license to work the markets, since he didn't have a residence. It's a catch 22 problem, since he needed to make some money to pay for a place to live. I never heard how this worked out for him though.

Blackduff

[josejuan]

Thank you once again for all the ideas! I've been plotting out many of your suggestions on a map and I think I'll be spending a couple of weeks based in or around the "Le Boulou" area looking at some of the markets. If anyone knows of a room I could rent in the area, I would love to hear about it.

I'll be looking from Ceret to the coast and also up to Perpignan on the A9 corridor, that gives me access to visit family at Calella de Palafrugell and Barcelona too.

Yes, getting on markets can be tough, but it is similar trying to get on a Yorkshire Farmers market. It tends to be an equal balance of perseverance and patience. The prices on the stalls have to reflect the passing trade. My website only shows some of the larger sizes I do, but on the stall I have two smaller mounted sizes, so my prices start at around 4 euros.

I'm sure I'll be posting again soon as things crop up. Thank you jose juan