Isle-sur-la-Sorgue market
Quai Jean Jaurès, Rue Rose Goudard and Place de la Liberté
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This market in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue takes place regularly on Sundays. You can usually start shopping from 8.00 am and the market traders clear up again from 12.30 pm.
Isle-sur-la-Sorgue market is located Quai Jean Jaurès, Rue Rose Goudard and Place de la Liberté. This is in the small streets of the city centre and on many river shores (map). 200 different booths are to be found on this market. The product range includes fruit and vegetables, direct marketing food, cheese, oarganic products, fish and seafood, meat products, meat products, flowers and crop and also clothes, kitchen utensils, furniture, toys and not non alimentary producs.
The Isle-sur-la-Sorgue market is one of the oldest and liveliest markets in Provence. Its origins date back to the 12th century and its regulations to the 16th century. It takes place from 8 am to 2 pm, all year round, in the town center and on the quays of the Sorgue. Offering a number of local products, it is one of the liveliest and most colorful of Comtat Venaissin.
The floating market (Marché Flottant) was created in the 1980s by René Legier. It takes place on the Sorgue, fruits and vegetables are stored on flat-bottomed boats, called Nego-Chin, led by boatmen and women who offer these food to the inhabitants of Isle sur la Sorgue and to tourists on the first Sunday of August, at the same time as the Sunday market. You can go shopping and enjoy, in addition, traditional Provencal costumes, music and live and singing commentary. When the floating market ends, the boats meet with all the participants of the traditional market and they sing the famous Cansoun de la Coupo, which celebrates Provence.
SourceThe number of exhibitors and the types of products offered vary according to the season or somethimes with the weather. The information is non-binding. The base data about this market were confirmed on the website of the local tourist office on 11 August 2023.
Map of the market and surrounding area
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Pink garlic in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
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Façade of the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Anges in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
The market also takes place in front of this church.
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Market in the alleys of L'Isle sur la Sorgue
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Market day in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
The market on Quai Jean Jaurès in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
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Big market on the Place de l'Église in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Fruit stand at L'Isle sur la Sorgue market
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Vegetable stand at the market in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Fruit stand on the market in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Stand with herbs at the market in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Stand with baked goods at L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue market
Négo-chin barge at Marché Flottant in L'Isle sur la Sorgue
Marketers dressed in traditional Provencal clothes offer fresh fruit straight from the boat.
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The decorated wooden boats at the market in early August
Barge and quay at Marché Flottant in L'Isle sur la Sorgue
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Isle-sur-la-Sorgue market extends to the bridges too