Flea markets and antique fairs fill Brittany on 22-23 August 2026: Dinard's summer braderie takes over the town centre, Cancale holds the last car boot sale of its season, Pontivy gathers 200 to 300 stalls.
Saturday, in the centre of Cancale.
The summer car boot sales hold their third and last date of the season there, after 15 July and 12 August. Across 22-23 August 2026, the stalls go up from one end of Brittany to the other: Dinard brings its whole town centre into the street on Sunday, Pontivy gathers 200 to 300 sellers at the exhibition park.
Dinard's summer braderie
On Sunday 23 August, the grande braderie d'été de Dinard turns the town centre into an open-air market. Shopkeepers and residents lay out their goods side by side along the streets of the seaside resort, at one of the biggest commercial events on the Côte d'Émeraude.
Thousands of visitors, one day.
The mix is what sets the day apart: shops clear their summer stock while households empty wardrobes and garages, so a table of mismatched crockery sits three steps from a rail of end-of-season clothes. Hunting for bargains here means accepting the crowd rather than the quiet of a village sale.
Dinard also trades the rest of the year. On the first Sunday of every month, the monthly flea market brings more than fifty professional dealers onto the Esplanade des Halles, from 9am to 7pm, with antique furniture, china, household linen, jewellery and paintings, and admission free. Two formats for one town: dealers on the esplanade on an ordinary Sunday, the whole centre on 23/08/2026.
Cancale, Lanildut, Quimper
On Saturday 22, the summer car boot sales of Cancale spread through the town centre for the last time of the season, with clothes, toys, books and everyday objects straight on the tables, in front of holidaymakers and locals alike, and entry costs nothing. On Sunday, at the far western end of Brittany, the Aber-Ildut car boot sale sets up on the Terrain du Roz, by the harbour of Lanildut, the smallest commercial port in France, run by the association Aber-Ildut Loisirs et Culture.
Quimper counts its sellers in hundreds.
On the car park of La Galerie, route de Bénodet, the Téléthon swap meet staged by the ForceT association draws more than a hundred sellers and some 2,000 visitors, with the proceeds going to the AFM-Téléthon for research into neuromuscular disease.
Inland in Morbihan, the Lantillac car boot sale puts around fifty stalls in the village hall of a community of 300 people, between Josselin and Rohan, in countryside where such gatherings can be counted on one hand. Further north, the Bon Repos sur Blavet sale closes its two-date season on Sunday, rue du Pontiou, between the Nantes-Brest canal and Lake Guerlédan. The commune itself dates from 2017, when Laniscat, Perret and Saint-Gelven merged.
