On 12-13 September 2026, flea markets and antique fairs animate Grand Est: Molsheim opens its medieval centre for two full days, Essey-lès-Nancy lines up 300 stalls over three kilometres and la Ruée vers l'Autre draws 500 sellers to Sainte-Savine.
Saturday morning, along the cobbled lanes of Bas-Rhin.
Molsheim opens its own at dawn, on 12 September. On 12-13 September 2026, flea markets and antique fairs animate Grand Est: Molsheim opens its medieval centre for two full days, Essey-lès-Nancy lines up 300 stalls over three kilometres and la Ruée vers l'Autre draws 500 sellers to Sainte-Savine.
Molsheim's flea market
The historic heart of Molsheim changes face on 12 and 13 September, as it does every back-to-school weekend in Alsace. Cobbled lanes and half-timbered houses welcome bargain hunters, collectors and antique dealers for two full days, a stretch few regional events allow themselves, south of Strasbourg.
The Metzig watches over the stalls.
This former Renaissance covered market, one of the most recognisable landmarks in Bas-Rhin, overlooks the event from the centre of town. A landmark for everyone. Around it, the town sits at the edge of the Alsace vineyards, on the road linking Strasbourg to the Villé valley, between vine slopes and outskirts.
The fair ranks among the notable back-to-school fixtures in this wine-growing corner of Bas-Rhin. Bargain hunters and passers-by come for antique pieces and more modest finds alike, in a setting the town maintains year-round, between cobblestones and restored façades. For two days, the medieval town runs on stalls rather than vines.
The rest of the weekend across Grand Est
In Essey-lès-Nancy, on the edge of Greater Nancy, more than 300 stalls stretch over three kilometres of streets for the annual flea market run by the Comité des Fêtes, among old objects, trinkets, clothes and bargains. Collectors and browsers gather there to hunt for deals along the town-centre streets. Entry stays free for every visitor who comes to browse in Sainte-Savine that Sunday.
Sainte-Savine, a town bordering Troyes, lines up as many as 500 sellers for la Ruée vers l'Autre, private sellers and associations together in a friendly mood. In Épinal, the Epicentre traders' association gathers more than 300 sellers in the town centre for the back-to-school braderie, from 8am to 6pm, with parking at Gare and Saint-Nicolas for one euro. Three big fairs, one single day.
In the Ardennes, the Launois-sur-Vence antiquities fair gathers professional antique dealers at the edge of the Ardennes forest, furniture, art objects and fine curiosities leading the way. Haguenau draws in music lovers. Vinyl and comic book collectors meet at the vinyl and comic book fair, Alsace's third-largest town, among 33 and 45 rpm records, cassettes, fanzines and concert posters.
Girmont mixes festival and flea market. In Girmont, a district of Thaon-les-Vosges, the ACATE association expects 150 sellers from 6am to 6pm for a flea market tied to an old-style patron saint's festival, with music from 9.30am and rides for children, in the heart of the Épinal urban area. In the Meuse, the Robert-Espagne car boot sale fills the streets of a village of 766 people, between the river Saulx and wooded hills, thirteen kilometres from Bar-le-Duc. Thirteen kilometres, a lasting memory. The village, rebuilt after a tragedy in 1944, now lines up its stalls in the open air, along its central streets, under a late-summer sky.
