All year round, the villages come alive and fill with colour on market days, inviting visitors to discover a festival of smells and flavours. The stalls change with the seasons, with local products offered by local producers. A way to discover local products as close as possible to what makes them 🤤.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morning Briatexte | Morning Graulhet Castelnau-de-Montmiral | Morning The Cabannes Salvagnac Cahuzac-sur-Vere | Morning Vaor Graulhet |
| Evening Saint Beauzile | Evening Gaillac Saint-Michel of Vax | Evening Salvagnac | Evening Penne Senouillac |
| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Morning Gaillac | Morning Ropes on sky Brens Rabastens | Morning Gaillac Lisle-sur-tarn Graulhet |
The market agenda
Our largest markets in all seasons
The markets of Gaillac
The friendliness of the market, which always gives a holiday feel, spreads throughout the city every Friday and Sunday mornings. From Place Hautpoul, which houses the town hall, to the small Place du Griffoul and its covered markets, passing by the large Place de la Libération, the entire city centre comes alive with excited discussions, colourful parasols and the delicious smells of farm produce. In addition to traditional fresh fruit and vegetables, you can find everything you need to make your weekly meals here: meat from nearby farms, fish, spices and even sweets!
To accompany all this, we take a trip to the Maison des Vins, an essential stop for tasting Gaillac wines and doing some shopping!
On Tuesday evening, it's the Noctambio, a 100% organic market: bread, poultry, eggs, vegetables, beer, wines, etc. You will even find flowers when the season is right and artisanal pasta! The producers are all local.
Saturday markets
Ropes on the sky
While the hustle and bustle usually animates the old streets that climb between the fortified gates, it is the lower part of the city that teems with activity. every saturday morning. A thousand colors take over the Place de la Bouteillerie for the greatest pleasure of gourmets. A typical local market with sweet and savory delights.
Rabastens
All along the Promenade des Lices lined with plane trees and brick facades, you can fill your basket in a relaxed and often musical atmosphere. Here, it is Saturday morning that's happening! As in Gaillac, you can find everything on the Rabastens market, including delicious ready-made dishes to put on your table at lunchtime, but also reading, crafts, seeds to plant for your garden.
To end the morning and relax by the water, we go down to the banks of the Tarn by the grand staircase and taste our delicious fresh products!
All along the Promenade des Lices lined with plane trees and brick facades, you can fill your basket in a relaxed and often musical atmosphere. Here, it is Saturday morning that's happening! As in Gaillac, you can find everything on the Rabastens market, including delicious ready-made dishes to put on your table at lunchtime, but also reading, crafts, seeds to plant for your garden.
Covered markets
Sunday morning
Lisle-sur-tarn
In the heart of the only true bastide in Occitan Tuscany, the Lisle-sur-Tarn market is set up on the square that the builders of the Middle Ages had already planned for this activity: the largest in the southwest to be surrounded by covered areas on its four sides. All the Sunday mornings Whether it's sunny or rainy, producers and artisans are there in the centre of the square or sheltered under cover.
Tuesday morning
Castelnau-de-Montmiral
Between its white stone arcades, the Castelnau-de-Montmiral market takes place in an atypical medieval setting. All year round, producers and artisans set up their stalls there, but it is in summer that it finds all its splendor! All Tuesday mornings, sheltered from the wind, you can find good local products for sale directly. Fruits and vegetables, charcuterie, honey and jams or crafts… No need for a large space to offer a varied selection!
Picnic with a basket full of market produce
Both friendly and colorful, the weekly markets in Tuscany Occitane invite you to stroll between the stalls of local producers, food shops or even florists or booksellers. All the gastronomy of the Tarn is gathered from one merchant to another and the discussions are in full swing to honor it: we exchange recipes and preparation tips.
Seasonal fruits and vegetables, ducks, cheese, wine, everything is tempting. Fill your basket with 100% local shopping until there is no more room, before heading to our best picnic spots to enjoy them. With a piece of fresh bread, this terrine or this slice of goat cheese… each bite takes on a new flavor.
We choose a quiet and relaxing place to meet up with family. Once our taste buds are full, we take a walk in nature, where only the song of birds and the rustling of the wind in the trees can be heard.
Our best picnic spots
The shopping is done, the end of the morning is fast approaching. We start to think that it would be time to find a quiet and pleasant place to enjoy the cold cuts, cheese and fruits that we have found, all accompanied by good bread! So we look for a place that is easily accessible, shaded and, if possible, equipped with a few picnic tables. Our favorites:
- Le Auzerals lake in Rabastens with its shaded surroundings ideal for relaxation
- Le Bellevue Lake In Lisle-sur-Tarn, just outside the village, you can take a well-deserved break!
- On the banks of the river in Milhars, a few steps from Bonnan Valley, we enjoy the calm of this small medieval village.
- Puycelsi and its viewpoint, in the shade of the trees, we admire the Grésigne forest below.