great popular success for le Retour des alpages
Several tens of thousands of visitors responded to the call for the 47th edition of the Retour des alpages, canceled for two years due to the pandemic. With 500 animals, historical costumes and instruments, and agricultural heritage. Slideshow.
The Interceltic Festival of Lorient 2022
When tradition dazzles you, from Célestin with his calf and his beret, to the little princes Arthur and Milo, and their mini pony. What to expect all the city center of Annecy.
For the occasion, even the cows are adorned with their finest finery. To the delight of thousands of spectators.
Parade to the sound of the alphorn with the Sonneurs de Savoye or further, the accordion, the dancers wear strange three-pointed headdresses: they are called “borders”, from Haute-Tarentaise and go back to Marie Tudor, duchess of Savoy, who wore the first in 1554.
The organizers hoped for up to 80,000 visitors. To see the crowd that gathers in the cobbled streets of the Venice of the Alps, the mayor of Annecy is delighted.
We must promote dairy farming, market gardening and bring agriculture back to the city. And today we can clearly see that the old is becoming new again: this is what must be perpetuated.
François Astorg, mayor (various ecologist) of Annecy
After two editions canceled due to Covid, the Return of the Alps has found its audience.
Proof that the traditions from the Middle Ages do indeed have a future.