Fete Du Village

The Village of Champagny le Haut holds a Village Fete every July around the 20th of July.

The day is started early with local men ringing a cows bell to wake you at 8am and sell you some croissants or a Pain o Chocolat! In Friburge the alert is raised by local boy cammie on his French Horn (Known as a cor D'harmonie) in french.

The central village of Le Bois is decked out with stalls and bunting and the all important bar and winesellers. The crowds are entertained with traditional dancing , music and singing.

In the evening the traditional savoyarde soup is boiled up in a huge cauldron and a large que forms in anticipation of the feast. Over one hundred people of the area and tourists all eat together in the open air in the village square a real souvenir as the French would say!

After the food the music and dancing starts again and turns into the Bal sur l'etoiles or dance under the stars!

As a fitting finally to the evening a firworks disply is set off from the otherside of the river which fills the mountian air with a smell of gunpowder. All that remains is a bit morer partying and the magical walk home to your bed in whichever part of the small mountian paridise your lucky enough ot be staying in.

FÊTE à CHAMPAGNY LE HAUT EN SAVOIE FRANCE