On 22 and 23 August 2026, flea markets across Centre-Val de Loire mostly run on Sunday: the 48-hour Grivelles sale opens for two days in Sancoins, 250 stallholders ring the lake at Suèvres, Chaumussay holds its 25th car boot sale.
Saturday morning, on the Grivelles showground.
Sancoins, in the Cher, opens the weekend with the only sale in the region that lasts both days. Everywhere else, the hunt fits into a single day: 250 stallholders around the lake at Suèvres, 120 in the village hall at Chaumussay, a hundred dealers along boulevard Béranger in Tours.
Two days of hunting on the Grivelles showground
Avenue Louis et Auguste Massé, in Sancoins: the 48-hour Grivelles flea market opens on 22/08/2026 on the exhibition park and keeps its stalls up until the evening of Sunday 23 August. No other event in the region covers both days this weekend.
Two full days, then. The rest of Centre-Val de Loire wraps up in a morning or a single day.
The Jeunes Agriculteurs and the AESC of Sancoins run this village-scale festival every year at the end of August, on the Grivelles showground. The flea market is one of its highlights, set inside a programme that also brings a drift show, a display of lorries and farm machinery, a producers' market, a funfair and a supper concert.
Early risers and vintage-machinery enthusiasts therefore share the same field, between two rows of stalls. Few sales in the region mix bric-a-brac and funfair to this degree; the format owes as much to a summer village fête as to an antique fair, and it holds the park from Saturday to Sunday night.
The big Sunday sales
On Sunday, the leisure park at Suèvres hosts the Domino car boot sale and its 250 stallholders set out around the lake, from 7am to 6pm, with a snack bar and catering on site. At Chaumussay, in southern Touraine, the 25th car boot sale gathers some 120 stallholders in and around the village hall, a quarter of a century after its first edition. Nibelle hunts during its patron saint's day: the Saint Bartholomew car boot sale takes over the centre of the Loiret village on 23 August, with food on site and a free concert from 8pm.
The professionals stay in town.
A hundred antique dealers, brocanteurs and decoration traders line boulevard Béranger in Tours from 7am to 7pm, as on every fourth Sunday of the month. Under the Baltard-style hall on place Billard, a few steps from Chartres cathedral, some fifty professionals lay out books, vinyl records, small vintage furniture, toys, jewellery and ceramics: the place Billard flea market runs from 7.30am to 6.30pm, admission free.
Two villages break the mould. At Selommes, in the Beauce country near Vendôme, the old football ground hosts a flea market paired with a vintage car display, where bargain hunters share the aisles with classic-engine enthusiasts. At Les Girauds, a hamlet of Gargilesse-Dampierre, stalls sit among the stone houses and flowered lanes of one of the Plus Beaux Villages de France, the village of George Sand and of the Creuse valley painters.
