Flea markets and antique fairs across Brittany this weekend, September 19-20, 2026: 1,500 vendors line the Canal Saint-Martin sale in Rennes, ahead of nine more gatherings across the region.
Ten stops, four departments. Rennes opens the weekend on September 20, along the Canal Saint-Martin. Fifteen hundred vendors set up over five kilometers for what stands as the country's second-largest flea market, behind only Lille's.
The Canal Saint-Martin Sale
On September 20 (09/20/2026), more than 1,500 vendors set up along the Canal Saint-Martin in Rennes. Five kilometers of quays stay busy from morning to evening, in what remains France's second-largest flea market, behind Lille's own.
Close to 100,000 visitors are expected over the single Sunday. Old furniture, clothing, vinyl records, secondhand toys, glassware, books: the usual flea market lineup, multiplied many times over along the entire route. Few Breton towns can match that much stall space in one stretch.
The neighborhoods along the canal, usually quiet on a Sunday, turn into one continuous open-air market for the whole stretch. Bars and shops nearby benefit from the crowds too, between quick meals, coffee breaks and pauses in the shade of the plane trees lining the water.
The canal district, one of Rennes's liveliest, blends flea market stalls, antique dealers and a festival mood all day long. Booths run without a break from one end of the route to the other, mixing old-fashioned antiques, family clear-outs and small curiosities gathered over the year.
No registration is required for visitors, and access stays free along the whole route. The sale draws bargain hunters from across western France every year, not just from Rennes and its immediate surroundings.
The Rest of the Weekend
In Côtes-d'Armor, the Amicale laïque of Bobital gathers around 150 vendors near the village school, a few kilometers from Dinan, at 2.50 euros per linear meter of stall space. In Lamballe, the Pétanque lamballaise takes over the Leclerc car park with 100 to 200 stalls, vendors arriving from 5:30am for an 8am opening, with food and drinks sold on site all day. On the wild Trégor peninsula, the Solidarity Ukraine sale in Pleubian lines up 450 linear meters through the pedestrian town center, backed by the town hall and local shops, with proceeds funding housing and support for Ukrainian refugees.
Further east, the GAB's grand car-boot sale brings 600 vendors to the streets of Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, a delegated village within the commune of Maen Roch, drawing bargain hunters from as far as the Normandy border for a day of good deals. On the other side of the region, the Locronan antiques fair closes out its season this September 20: fewer than fifty professional dealers, but a backdrop of cobbled lanes in a village ranked among France's most beautiful. Entry stays free, as it has every month of the season since May.
Morbihan counts four gatherings this weekend. The 21st edition of the Locqueltas flea market, a rural town of about 3,200 people ten kilometers north of Vannes, opens Saturday from 8am to 6pm, indoors and out. The same day, Bignan holds its own, a village of 2,800 between Locminé and Josselin known for the Kerguéhennec contemporary art estate. On Sunday, the ELSA chess club sale, Brittany's third-largest chess club by membership, runs at the Roger-Le-Manach sports hall in Sainte-Anne-d'Auray, while Taupont's Notre-Dame school, organized by the school's parent association, brings together amateur and professional sellers outdoors from 6am around the town gym, with one-euro entry, free for children under sixteen.
Food and drink stalls are set up at several of these gatherings, from the Leclerc car park in Lamballe to the sports hall in Sainte-Anne-d'Auray.
