Flower parades and carnivals on the French Riviera

Le Lavandou Flower parade March 2027Bormes Flower parade February, 2027Cavalaire Corso du mimosa February, 2027Sainte-Maxime Corso du mimosa February, 2027Nice Carnival February 09-28, 2027 "Vive l'Amour"93nd Lemon Festival in Menton February 2027Mandelieu-La Napoule Mimosa Festival February, 2027

Flower parade - Bormes-les-Mimosas - February, 2027

Lavandou Flower parade - March, 2027

Lavandou Flower parade takes place over two days. The traditional highlight of the event, great parade of 18 floats will be held on Sunday with the famous flower battle at 4:30 p.m. Saturday: exhibition, entertainment village, visit to the tank construction hangars.

Nice Carnival "Vive l'Amour" February 09-28, 2027

Lemon festival in Menton - February, 2027

Carnival : history and tradition

The flower carnival originates from Egypte and Greece. These countries coming from paganism used to celebrate respectively the Apis bull and the Bacchus bull, they were being immolated while people danced and were screaming of joy. Before that, a human victim replaced the bull. From 1420 the carnival consisted of a bull adorned of feather and dazzling objects and clothes, and a child, king of the butchers that was perched on its back. This practice was abolishes in 1790 and restored in 1805. After that, the king of the butchers was replaced by a float full of young girls wearing mythologycal ceremonials of Love (hence the Queen's float). Then the Corso got its inspiration from Italy with floats decorated by leaves and branches, pulled on the main street by participants allowed to make fun of the local key figures. From 1950 the corsos in the South became a tourist show with majorettes, bands, flower battles, paying stand, tractors, amusement rides... losing all their villager and religious roots.


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