On 12-13 September 2026, flea markets and antique fairs across Pays de la Loire hold their last big weekend of the season: up to 500 stallholders in Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie and the Le Mans city-centre street sale.
A back-to-school Sunday, deep in Mayenne farmland.
Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie holds its flea market this 13 September. One of the busiest dates in western Mayenne. On 12-13 September 2026, flea markets and antique fairs across Pays de la Loire hold their last big weekend of the season: up to 500 stallholders in Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie and the Le Mans city-centre street sale.
Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie, one of the largest markets in western Mayenne
The flea market of Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie ranks among the best-attended events in western Mayenne. Every September, the village welcomes between four hundred and five hundred stallholders. A number few villages this size reach anywhere in the region.
Visitors travel in from across Mayenne, and well beyond the département's borders.
This year's 13/09/2026 date continues that annual pattern. The event takes place in this Mayenne farming village and draws visitors from across the region every September.
The stallholder count places it alongside the big city-centre street sales and the older monthly markets, in a regional calendar otherwise short on events this size. No other gathering in the département draws as many at this time of year.
Sarthe, Anjou, Vendée: the rest of the calendar
In Sarthe and in Nantes, two urban events liven up the weekend. The Le Mans city-centre street sale turns the streets into one vast discount market, with shops and traders bringing their stock outdoors, clothes, shoes and accessories leading the goods on offer. In Nantes, the Fête du Vide takes place at the 20 Mille venue. On Boulevard Jules Verne, in this community arts space in the Bellevue district, a raffle offers bicycles as prizes.
In Maine-et-Loire, two markets stand out. The Puces de Montsoreau, in one of France's most beautiful villages, mark thirty-four years running with sixty to eighty professional dealers, held every second Sunday of the month, where the Loire meets the Vienne. The 26th Membrollais flea market in Longuenée-en-Anjou brings together more than three hundred stallholders, one of the largest in north-western Anjou. The event has been running for more than two decades. Two very different profiles, a few kilometres apart. In Doué-en-Anjou, the P'tits Bouchons market draws bargain hunters and collectors near the town's zoo. The town is nicknamed the rose city of Maine-et-Loire.
Further south, four community and association events take place across Vendée and Mayenne. In Luçon, the big Bric à Brac runs across two sites in town, from ten in the morning until five. Furniture, crockery, tools, all at bargain prices. The two sites sit on Route des Moutiers and Rue des Meuniers. In Fontenay-le-Comte, the monthly flea market brings up to 250 stallholders to Place de Verdun, on that same second Sunday. The pitch fee there is two euros fifty per metre, open to both private sellers and professionals. In Challans, the Challans Je T'aime flea market reserves its pitches for private sellers only, keeping professional dealers out. In Saint-Georges-Buttavent, in Mayenne, around a hundred stallholders set up alongside a full programme of entertainment.
