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Limoux Carnival
Jan 2-Mar 21 - estimated
Limoux dances its Pierrots and Goudils through the square every weekend for three months, France's longest carnival.
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Notable cultural timing - Moderate confidence
France ranked Notable this window. 5 celebrations contribute to its cultural timing during March 2027.
Methodology: Top-5 cultural-timing scores averaged, with high-confidence celebration count and seasonal density as tiebreakers.
Jan 2-Mar 21 - estimated
Limoux dances its Pierrots and Goudils through the square every weekend for three months, France's longest carnival.
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Nice spends two February weeks in giant heads and flower battles, the Riviera's biggest Carnival filling every promenade.
View celebrationMar 19 - estimated
Mamers stages a mock trial, burns the effigy, and shakes winter off with one of France's oldest carnival rites.
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Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire fills March with concerts, exhibits, and talks on women's creativity — the Bruissements d'Elles festival where the artists are all women.
View celebrationMar 21-Mar 28 - estimated
After dark Bastia moves by chant and candle as confraternities thread Holy Week through the old streets.
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