Craft and peasant market

Name: Mercado artesanal y campesino
Start: 2022-09-18T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Château de La Tour d'Aigues

This market showcases the artisans and producers of the Luberon region. You can discover throughout the day creations (jewellery, leather goods, etc.) and regional products.

Domingo 18 septiembre 2022, 10:00Passed

Herramientas de registro

@pareaproduction @Julia D. Nuccio & Océane Breton

2 DAYS NON-STOP festival where you can (re)discover this Historical Monument in all its aspects. The evening of Saturday will last all night, with a sound system in quadriphony in the courtyard of the castle from 18H to 00H30 then in the basement until 5H. Saturday in brief: DJ sets, dance, live, artistic performances, guided tour, live painting Sunday in brief: Live concerts, craft market, tombola, treasure hunt, dancefloor children

About the location

Château de La Tour d'Aigues

Château de La Tour d'Aigues 84240 La Tour-d'Aigues

Vaucluse
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

The castle of La Tour d'Aigues in Vaucluse, owned by the General Council, houses since 1987, a museum of earthenware. On the occasion of the restoration work of the castle, carried out by the General Council of Vaucluse, and the archaeological excavations carried out from 1976 to 1980, an important set of ceramics, glassware, pavement tiles was brought to light. La Tour d'Aigues was a pottery production centre during the second half of the 18th century thanks to» Jean-Baptiste-Jérôme BRUNY (1724-1795), owner of the castle. This descendant of a family of the great Marseilles bourgeoisie was a scholar, a lover of natural history, medicine, agronomy and a great lover of art. His entrepreneurial spirit, his curiosity, his taste for applied research led him to try various experiments in the most varied fields: thus he created a pottery in a bastide next to the castle, some of whose productions are in the museum. He surrounded himself with artists, researched engravings that could serve as m