Flea markets and antique fairs in Pays de la Loire, September 19-20, 2026: about a hundred professional dealers set up inside Rezé's covered market hall, between Nantes, Laval and Vendée.
Sunday, under the MIN's covered hall. Rezé hosts its monthly antiques market on September 20, just outside Nantes, a few kilometres from the city centre. About a hundred professional dealers fill the covered market, while towns across the region open their flea markets and antique fairs on September 19-20, 2026, from the tip of Loire-Atlantique down to the edge of Vendée, taking in Maine-et-Loire and Mayenne along the way.
A Hundred Dealers Under Rezé's Covered Hall
71 boulevard Alfred Nobel, in Rezé. On the third Sunday of every month, the wholesale market changes trade for a single day. The MIN Antiquity Market takes over the aisles on September 20, a short drive from central Nantes, on a site usually reserved for wholesale trading.
A hundred dealers, under one roof. All of them professionals, they set up inside the covered hall, in an organised setting rather than the free-for-all of an amateur car boot sale, built entirely around antiques and collectibles, from small furniture to collectors' items. Dimexpo has run this monthly gathering for years, with a regularity few markets in the region can match.
The covered hall keeps out both wind and rain. A real advantage in mid-September, when the local weather still hesitates between summer and autumn, and outdoor car boot sales grow scarce.
Covered aisles and on-site parking let buyers browse from morning into early afternoon, regardless of the sky above. A different way into the season, for anyone who has already worked through the outdoor sales of summer. A fixture many regulars mark on their calendar well before the school term starts.
Flea Markets from Sarthe to Vendée
Nine more gatherings, on the weekend of 19-20/09. They line up from Sarthe down to Vendée, between large regional gatherings and neighbourhood get-togethers.
In Sarthe, Fresnay-sur-Sarthe opens its autumn edition of the Puces Fresnoises, one of the biggest flea market gatherings in the north of the department, drawing collectors, professional antique dealers, traders and amateur bargain hunters alike, in a late-summer atmosphere. A sizeable fixture, twice a year. In Bonchamp-lès-Laval, a residential town in the Laval area, the local Amicale Laïque gathers around 225 vendors for its back-to-school car boot sale, a well-attended fixture in the east of Laval.
Four other community sales use the back-to-school season to reopen. In Mayenne, the Sainte-Marie parents' association runs its car boot sale in Louverné, to fund the local Catholic school. A border crossed, in Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine. In Vendée, this town follows its spring market with an autumn edition, between Legé and Rocheservière, on the edge of Loire-Atlantique. The Espace Gachère flea market in Palluau covers central Vendée, not far from Aizenay and La Roche-sur-Yon. The festival committee of Saint-Valérien sets up its own in this village of the Vendée Marais poitevin.
Three more specialised markets round out the picture. In Nantes, the Place Viarme flea market holds its usual Saturday session, a professional antiques gathering held for decades in the city centre, known for its old furniture and silverware. Decor and antiques, in Gennes-Val-de-Loire. The Fontaine Zen antiques market sets out its stalls there on the third Sunday of the month, in a town of the Anjou Loire valley known for its Gallo-Roman arena. In Luçon, the Les Z'Occas des Fripouilles association runs its autumn children's clothing fair, for kids aged 0 to 16, from bottle warmers to car seats.
The Fontaine Zen antiques market repeats every third Sunday through December.
