This weekend of September 19-20, 2026, flea markets and antique fairs multiply across Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, from Gap to Vaison-la-Romaine, between a charity car boot sale and small village markets.
Orient Boulevard, Sunday morning, in Gap. The Grand Tokoro Car Boot Sale sets up in the business park that gives it its name, on September 20, 2026. The weekend looks busy, from north to south. This weekend of September 19-20, 2026, flea markets and antique fairs multiply across Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, from Gap to Vaison-la-Romaine, between a charity car boot sale and small village markets.
The charity car boot sale of Tokoro, in Gap
Direction the Hautes-Alpes, at the gates of Gap. The EDB Gap association organises this Grand Tokoro Car Boot Sale for the benefit of the association « On me soigne et je m'amuse », which supports children hospitalised at Gap's hospital. Two hundred vendors set up on Orient Boulevard, in the business park that lends the event its name, this Sunday, 20/09/2026. Its name says it all: distracting children who spend their days in hospital instead of at school or in the garden.
Clothes, toys, furniture, crockery. Households across the Hautes-Alpes empty their attics this Sunday for a specific cause, not just an end-of-summer clear-out. Browsers and regulars mix with families who came to support the association, in an atmosphere closer to a popular fair than a hushed antiques market. No shopfronts here, just outdoor stalls. Every item sold funds a bit of respite for a hospitalised child in Gap.
The event ranks among the largest car boot sales in the Hautes-Alpes department. That is no small thing, for a rural department. Its charity anchor sets it apart from dozens of other Sunday gatherings, where second-hand trading usually stays a matter between neighbours clearing out what they no longer use.
The rest of the weekend across Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Along the coast and across the plain, scale is counted in hundreds of vendors. Six hundred stalls gather at the Fossette site, in Fos-sur-Mer, founded in April 2003 by Cédric and Martine on an eight-hectare park, on the road toward Arles and Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône. Next stop, the Var. Two hundred and fifty vendors set up under the pines of the Mas de Bagatin, in Grimaud, in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, with 1.3 hectares of parking for the Sunday crowds. Third big site of the day: Arles. Two hundred vendors gather there every other Sunday at the chemin de Fourchon, a city listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site for its Roman and Romanesque monuments.
Historic squares draw a different crowd, closer to antique lovers than Sunday bargain hunters. Under the Piedmontese arcades and ochre-and-red façades of Place Garibaldi, in Nice, some thirty professional antique dealers set up on this third Saturday of the month. Same story in Vaison-la-Romaine. The AAB association, for Antiques and Second-hand Dealers, has run the professional market of Place Montfort since 2008, from 8am to 6pm, under the shade of plane trees. On to the Vaucluse, again. Along the Sorgue river, at the foot of its old waterwheels, the Sunday market of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue belongs to the third largest antiques hub in Europe, behind London and Saint-Ouen.
Two smaller gatherings round out the picture, away from the main tourist sites. The car boot sale of La Motte-du-Caire brings together the village every September, between Sisteron and Gap, in the northern Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, close to the department's edge. Old habit too in Toulon, on the eastern side of the city. The Sainte-Musse flea market keeps its regulars coming every Saturday and Sunday, among vintage furniture, crockery, clothes, books, trinkets and tools. A popular, long-standing address for Toulon's second-hand trade.
The Fossette gathering alone draws close to 13,000 visitors at each edition, one of the busiest gatherings on the coast between Arles and Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, not far from the mouth of the Rhône.
