Festival des Vieilles Charrues

HISTORY

The Vieilles Charrues Festival (In French : Festival des Vieilles Charrues - Literally means Old Ploughs Festival) is held every year in mid-July in the city of Carhaix located in the west of Brittany.

This festival is the largest music festival in France, attracting more than 200,000 festival-goers every year.

The festival was created in 1992 in Landeleau, a small village in central Finistere. At that time, less than 500 revellers attended and the festival was more like a private party. The following year, the festival welcomed more than 2000 and that was the beginning of its success story. In 1995, due to lack of space on the original site, the festival moved to Carhaix city center and in 1998, for the same reason, the festival chose a site on the outskirts of Carhaix. Now the festival welcomes more than 200,000 festival-goers every year.

GETTING TO FESTIVAL VIEILLES CHARRUES

TRAVELLING BY CAR

Located at the crossroads of three departments (Finistère, Côtes d'Armor and Morbihan), Carhaix is the town center area of the Poher, the intersection of the axis-Roscoff and Lorient from the expressway Rennes-Chateaulin.

From Rennes: RN 164 direction Quimper.
From Nantes: Follow Vannes, Lorient, then the axis Lorient - Morlaix

Brest - Carhaix: 1h
Quimper - Carhaix: 45 min
Guingamp - Carhaix: 45 min
Rennes - Carhaix: 1:45
Nantes - Carhaix: 2:45
Valves - Carhaix: 1h