On 22-23 August 2026, flea markets and antique fairs run right across Pays de la Loire: a two-day street sale on three streets in Les Sables-d'Olonne, dealers at Le Pouliguen, Saturday puces on place Viarme in Nantes.
Six in the morning, at the racecourse of La Chartre-sur-le-Loir.
The Sarthe car boot sale opens its lanes on Sunday 23 August and keeps them open until 6.30 pm. Across the weekend of 22-23 August 2026, flea markets and antique fairs in Pays de la Loire stretch from the Vendée coast to the inland bocage, with two full days of trading in the pedestrian streets of Les Sables-d'Olonne.
Two days of street sale in Les Sables-d'Olonne
Rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, rue Travot, rue des Halles: the summer merchants' sale of Les Sables-d'Olonne takes over the three pedestrian streets of the town centre on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August, from 10 am to 7 pm.
The UCSO, the town's shopkeepers' union, runs it every August.
Shops carry their racks out onto the pavement and sell for two days at prices they do not offer for the rest of the year. The sale falls at the height of the tourist season, in a town the Vendée Globe made familiar far beyond the Vendée, and it holds on Saturday as well as Sunday.
Two days is the exception here: almost every other sale in the region lasts a single day, and many of them a single morning.
Bargain hunting takes a different shape from the puces. The sellers are shopkeepers with a window and a lease, not dealers passing through, and the stock comes out of back rooms rather than attics. Nine hours a day leave room to walk the same street twice.
Saturday, from Le Pouliguen to Baugé-en-Anjou
The Belle Brocante du Pouliguen closes its season on 22/08/2026 along boulevard de Civanam. Two editions a summer, open to professional antique dealers only, with old furniture, vintage pieces and vinyl records, alongside the Rétro Pouligue'n'Roll and its retro mood in a seaside setting.
In Nantes, the place Viarme flea market holds its weekly slot from 8 am to 1 pm: an open-air market among the oldest in the region, where selected traders lay out antique furniture, silverware, prints and ceramics for the city's regulars.
Baugé-en-Anjou sells too.
The Brocante du Bel Accueil returns every fourth Saturday of the month in this rural commune of Maine-et-Loire, home of the Anjou cross: bric-a-brac, antiques and second-hand goods in a country-town setting.
