Bailleul, une ville à la campagne aux cœurs des Monts de Flandres
Historique - Musée - Dentelles - Nature - Gargantua
Le Mont des Cats - Le Mont Noir
Rare are the towns of French Flanders which as Bailleul knew to maintain and perpetuate the ancestral traditions. From generation to generation, community life is always also intense: archery, swell Flemish, traditional dances, etc... These cordial and user-friendly meetings are often the occasion to taste, around a good local beer, the traditional mets like the carbonnade or the potje-vleesch in an inn or a estaminet of the vintage. Fêtes Traditionnelles the Carnival It is one of most famous of the area. Before entering the forty days of Lent, it is the large one défoulement rythmé and framed by the municipal harmony. The famous GARGANTUA giant, good eater and heavy drinker of the world, survey the streets of the city, follow-up of a parade of tanks, colors, costumes. During four days, one sings with kill-head the airs ritual, one dances, one chahute in the ballrooms or of coffees, one eats chips and the beer runs with floods, one masks oneself and one has fun.

APPOINTMENT EACH YEAR the PREVIOUS WEEKEND FATTY TUESDAY

Information with the Office of Tourism of Bailleul and the Mounts of Flandres to the 03 28 43 81 00.

Celebrates Scarecrow the scarecrows, last surviving of an agrarian worship, are put at the honor each year with Bailleul. APPOINTMENT EACH YEAR LAST SATURDAY OF JULY

Celebrates Mill A Boeschèpe (all the 2 or 3 years: 1999...): animations around the mill, groups folk, music, spectacles and left the giant. Information to the 03 28 42 50 24

Fires of Holy Saint-Jean A Jans-Cappel in the center of the Village (3rd Saturday of June). Historical reconstitution sound and light presented on the place of the church at the time of the longest day of the year and chaired by the giant of the village " Reuze Mom ". Flashover of fires of Saint-Jean and throw of " Vlamschkeokje " top of the bell-tower. Rens.: 03 28 49 08 03

Celebrates in Raoul de Godewaersvelde In the center of the village the 1st weekend of July; Honor with the giant " Raoul ": travelling acrobats, animations of street, musicians in the estaminets, annual stock sale. Rens.: 03 28 42 50 06.

International meeting of Lace A Bailleul every 3 years in July (1998-2001 -...), Village hall of Bailleul. With the occasion of Sainte-Anne, sponsors lacemakers bailleuloises, a hundred artists of the whole world meet in Bailleul and put forward their techniques lacemakers under the attentive glance of the public. Information to the 03 28 43 81 00.

Celebrates with Old in Boeschèpe With the foot with the clamp - 405, street of the Sun. Secondhand trade reserved for the objects of before 1950. The afternoon, dressed up reconstitution of a scene of the life of last time. Information to the 03 28 42 51 25.
Celebrates Attachment A Berthen on August 15, equestrian secondhand trade the morning, blessing of the attachments with 14h30. Some scarcities like Milord 1880 or the Half-compartment of City 1850 compete of elegance in a course of handiness to the sound of the hunting horns. Information to the 03 28 42 51 00

Celebrates Pig A Godewaersvelde at the end of August, traditional dinner in an environment in a user-friendly environment with music and farandoles. Information: 03 28 49 49 26 - 03 28 42 54 04

Celebrates of Hommelpap A the Bert farm in Bailleul. Eeckstraete. At the end of August (Sunday) every two years (1998-2000...) Join again with the tradition of the festival of Hommelpap which formerly marked the end of the gathering of hop. All the day, many animations in a folk environment. Information: 03 28 49 03 90

Celebrates Corn A Boeschèpe, the foot with the clamp - 405, street of the Sun at the end of August (Sunday), during all the day, animations around the harvest: cut corn, clothes industry of a grinding stone, flashover of the chu, musical animation. Information: 03 28 42 51 25
Holy harvest festival A Jans Cappel. Firm of the Rose of the Winds. Road of Bailleul. Last Saturday and Sunday of August. Gathering of hop to the beating of corn, while passing by a multitude of old trades, the harvest festival is a true return to the sources. Do not fail to also discover the culture of the flax, the tobacco or the drier with hop. Folk animations. Great ball Folk saturdays evening. Information: 03 28 41 25 29 - 03 28 41 19 00

Celebrates of Saint-Hubert Vis-a-vis to the Abbey of the Mount of Cats, 3rd Sunday of October. Like each year, the in love ones with nature, horse and hunting will be found with the Mount of Cats. With the program: mass with 11h, followed blessing of the horses and dogs, the whole with the sound of the horns of famous " the Débuché of Flandres ". Information: 03 28 43 81 00

Flemish plays Here, they survived the most modern forms of entertainment. You will be able to initiate yourselves with the Flemish ball on long and broad track called " bourloire " or " bollentrag " Plays of exterior, the archery vertical is another way of diverting itself. Play consisting in cutting down a target called " papegai ", kind of birds out of wooden empanachés of feathers planted on a chechmate or a pole. If you tighten the ear, you will then hear perhaps the players converse in Flemish. On our premises the traditions are always quite alive.