Flea markets and antique fairs in Occitanie on 22–23 August 2026: Montréal-du-Gers stages its 29th Grand Déballage under the arcades, Drulhe opens at 5.30am and Sommières holds its Saturday brocante.
Twenty-nine editions. The Grand Déballage returns to the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Montréal-du-Gers on Sunday 23 August 2026. Flea markets and antique fairs across Occitanie open on that Gascon bastide over the weekend of 22–23 August 2026, while the Lot, the Tarn and the Aveyron bring out their late-summer sales.
The 29th Grand Déballage in Montréal-du-Gers
The La Flamme association sets up the Grand Déballage on the main square of a bastide listed among the Plus Beaux Villages de France. Medieval arcades on one side, the open square on the other: the sale takes over the centre of the village.
Déballage is no decorative word here.
In south-west France it means the widest format of all: a large number of stallholders spread across the public space of the town itself, rather than a field rented on the outskirts. Montréal-du-Gers adds the setting, stone arcades open onto the Gers countryside, and a full day of hunting in one place.
One association runs it, one square holds it, one day covers it. Twenty-nine editions on, the arcades still serve as covered aisles.
Nine more sales, from the Quercy to the Vidourle
On the bank of the Garonne, the Port esplanade at Auvillar gathers 100 to 200 stallholders, private sellers and dealers alike, across the Sunday. The same day in the Aveyron, the Drulhe votive festival sale opens the Le Sol municipal campsite at 5.30am, with 100 to 200 stalls run by the Union Sportive du Pays Alzuréen. High above the Dordogne valley, Loubressac drew around 150 stallholders for its 31st edition.
At Cajarc, the school parents' association welcomes sellers with coffee and fouace from 6am on the Tour de Ville.
Saturday 22/08 belongs to the Tarn. Puycelsi pairs its sale with a medieval festival, costumed camp included, on the rocky spur above the Grésigne forest. At the foot of the Montagne Noire, the Sorèze sale opens the lanes of a listed town ringed by its UNESCO-listed Abbey-School.
Two fixtures depend on no village feast at all. The Esplanade des Arènes in Sommières has held its Saturday brocante for more than ten years, a hundred stalls from 5.30am under the plane trees beside the Vidourle. On Sunday morning, Les Dimanches du Peyrou line up some 70 professional dealers in Montpellier at the foot of the triumphal arch.
Loures-Barousse, 626 inhabitants, 450 metres up. The Moto Steel on Road club runs a sale doubled with a motorbike meet at the village hall and around it, on the edge of the Hautes-Pyrénées and the Haute-Garonne.
