Street Sale of Mortain-Bocage

Street Sale of Mortain-Bocage

The street sale of Mortain-Bocage (50140) is one of the most anticipated commercial and festive events of the summer in the Manchois bocage. This annual street sale transforms the town center of Mortain into a large open-air market where local shopkeepers, associations, and individual exhibitors set up their stalls to offer sales, second-hand items, and all sorts of finds.

The Mortain street sale is both a commercial festival and a moment of conviviality for the inhabitants of Mortain-Bocage and neighboring towns. The town center shopkeepers take the opportunity to display their promotional items on the sidewalks and in the shopping streets, creating a popular fair atmosphere that livens up the entire town. Local associations hold food and drink stalls, contributing to the festive atmosphere of the day.

The car boot sale aspect of the street sale attracts individual exhibitors who wish to get rid of items they no longer use. A wide variety of items can be found: furniture, clothing and accessories, books and vinyl records, crockery and kitchenware, tools and garden equipment, toys and games, trinkets and decorative objects. The street sale is also a great space for exchanges and encounters between residents from the entire area.

Summer is the ideal season for this street sale in Mortain-Bocage. The town attracts many visitors at this time who come to discover its spectacular waterfalls, its granite rock, and its bocage landscape. The street sale offers these passing visitors additional entertainment and allows them to discover the local commercial and associative fabric.

Mortain-Bocage, town of waterfalls

Mortain-Bocage (50140) is a small town of about 2,000 inhabitants perched on a rocky outcrop in the Manchois bocage. It is famous for its waterfalls — the Grande Cascade and the Petite Cascade — fed by the Cance river, which are among the most remarkable natural sites in the Manche department.

The rock of Mortain, from which the view extends over the entire Norman bocage and even, on a clear day, to Mont-Saint-Michel, is the town's other major attraction. The white abbey, founded in the 12th century, is a jewel of Cistercian architecture that testifies to the medieval history of the territory. Mortain-Bocage is a recent municipality, born from the merger of Mortain and neighboring municipalities, which brings together several bocage identities under one name.