Flea markets and antique fairs in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on 22-23 August 2026: the trade-only antiques fair of Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye sets up in the abbey courtyard, while Megève holds its summer sale and Bourg-en-Bresse its militaria fair.
A medieval abbey courtyard, in the Isère. Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye lays out its antiques fair on Sunday 23 August 2026. This weekend of 22-23 August 2026 also brings a three-day sale in Megève, a militaria fair in Bourg-en-Bresse and village car boot sales from the Forez hills to Lake Geneva.
The antiques fair at Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye
Sunday 23 August, the Grande Cour of the abbey hosts the Foire aux Antiquités Brocante Collections. Pitches go to professional dealers only: antiques, brocante and collectables, with no private sellers.
More than a hundred editions behind it.
The number weighs in a region where second-hand trade mostly runs to a weekly rhythm, on retail park tarmac and market squares. An annual fair that reaches such a count does not fill up on Friday-night sign-ups.
That count makes it one of the oldest trade fairs of its kind in the Isère. It comes back every August, in the same setting: a village listed among the Plus Beaux Villages de France, built around its abbey and the wide courtyard. A single day, 23/08/2026.
The sorting happens upstream. A sale closed to private sellers does not fill the same tables as a village car boot sale: old furniture, art objects and collectables take the ground that bric-a-brac holds elsewhere. The trade-off fits in one line: nothing to lay out here for anyone clearing a garage.
From Clermont-Ferrand to the shores of Lake Geneva
Clermont-Ferrand opens its Sunday on place Gambetta, where the Marché aux Puces des Salins lines up around a hundred and fifty regular stallholders and draws 5,000 to 10,000 visitors, mixing old furniture, vinyl records and vintage clothes. In Bourg-en-Bresse, the covered market splits its 900 square metres between Broc Land Geek and the militaria fair on Sunday the 23rd, figurines, retro video games and Lego on one side, uniforms, helmets and insignia on the other, entry 3 euros and free under ten.
Megève puts its shop stock out on the pavement. The summer sale runs through the village streets from 21 to 23 August, 10am to 7pm on Saturday and Sunday: end-of-line stock and cut prices from local traders rather than antiques.
On the French shore of Lake Geneva, Le Bric à Brac d'Excenevex sets out on place de l'Église from 8am to 5pm on Sunday, in the only lakeside village with a natural fine sand beach. The Forez hills start far earlier: the Gumieres car boot sale takes the village lanes from 6am to 6pm, at two euros a linear metre.
Le Pouzin waits for dark. The night car boot sale run by Le Soleil Pouzinois comes back every Saturday evening of the Ardèche summer, refreshments on site, free entry.
