Summer is coming, here are the highlights not to be missed in Toulouse
Several events, particularly sporting and cultural, are planned for this summer in Toulouse. Here are the highlights not to be missed.
Gradually, the temperatures rise. It is a sign of the arrival of sunny days. And with the lifting of health restrictions, the next few months promise to be busy. A string of events is planned this summer in Toulouse.
Events are returning to Toulouse this summer
The great parade of the Toulouse carnival
Carnival madness will once again invade the streets of the Pink City. After being canceled for the past two years due to restrictions linked to Covid-19, the Toulouse carnival will be organized again in this year 2022. The Organizing Committee for the unified carnival (COCU) of Toulouse has set the date for the grand parade on June 4, “subject to validation or possible report due to sanitary conditions! “.
A second edition for the Toulouse Rugby Festival
The Toulouse Rugby Festival returns to Place du Capitole on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 June to launch the final phase of the Top 14. Toulouse and French. An event that is intended to be inclusive with a “rugby chair” practice ground to discover throughout the weekend”, announces the municipality.
The first tournament of the World Padel Tour in France
The first edition of the Human Padel Open will take place from Wednesday June 15 to Sunday June 19, 2022 at the Palais des Sports André-Brouat in Toulouse. This is the first time that a French stage has been included in the World Padel Tour, the circuit for professional padel players. The event will bring together some 400 athletes, including the best players on the planet.
The Rio Loco surfs on Portuguese waves
The Rio loco festival returns for a 27th edition at the Prairie de Filtres in Toulouse. The event announcing the arrival of summer will take place from June 15 to 19 in Toulouse. During this edition called “Nova onda”, the atmosphere will be Portuguese. It means “new wave” or “new vybes”.
Several festivals in the Pink City
20th edition of Electronic Siestas in Toulouse
In 2022, Les Siestes Electroniques will celebrate 20 years of adventurous music in Toulouse at the Jardin de Compans-Caffarelli, from June 23 to 26. “The festival returns, after two years of interruption, with the same formula: current music, free outdoor concerts, in the green setting offered by the Compans-Caffarelli garden”, according to the municipality.
Toulouse in fanfare: the bubbling Pink City from July to August
“Between the Canal du Midi and the Garonne, the international tango festival of Toulouse invites amateurs and beginners from July 1st to 10th. On the program: more than a hundred hours of balls, outdoors and indoors, a last great ball weekend in Ramonville on the banks of the Canal du Midi, 3 days of training with the maestros Vanessa Gauch & Esref Tekinalp and many workshops, from traditional tango to neo-tango”, provides the municipality.
The Convivencia festival on the Canal du Midi
Every summer, on the Canal du Midi, the barge of the Convivencia festival transforms its bridge into a concert stage to welcome artists from all over the world, concerts to be enjoyed lying on a deckchair or in dancefloor mode at the water’s edge .
The Rose festival is approaching
the Rose Festival organized by Bigflo and Oli will take place on September 3 and 4. The French DJs Polo & Pan, as well as the famous rappers Damso and Ziak, are notably expected on stage on Friday. The next day, it will be the turn of hip-hop group IAM, electro/techno DJ Paul Kalkbrenner and rapper Chilla to ignite the area.