A journey through agricultural traditions
The Harvest Festival offers a living reconstruction of old agricultural techniques. Festivities include old-fashioned harvesting demonstrations, featuring historic machinery such as hot-ball tractors, reapers and threshers. Participants, dressed in period costumes, illustrate the evolution of agricultural methods, from manual mowing to the first agricultural machines.
Program of festivities
Although the program may vary at each edition, typical highlights of the event include:
Saturday afternoon :
- Equipment display
- fashion show with a procession in traditional costumes and demonstrations of old-fashioned threshing
- Musical evening
Sunday :
- Mass in the open air air followed by the blessing of the animals
- fashion show with a procession in traditional costumes and demonstrations of old-fashioned threshing
- Dinner dance
