Trophée Andros
January 10th to 11th, 2020
Isola 2000
A spectacular rallycross competition showcasing some of the world’s finest ice drivers.
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January 18th to 19th, 2020
Serre-Chevalier, Hautes-Alpes
The Trophée Andros is a rallycross ice driving competition held in France since 1990, offering spectators spectacular scenes combining mountain, snow, ice, cars and motorbikes. The challenges include a 100%-electric speed race.
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88th Monte-Carlo in the southern Alps
January 20th to 26th, 2020
Created in 1911, this winter rally is the first meeting of the FIA (WRC) World Championship. This year’s edition has been 40% remodelled to feature a morning shakedown on the heights of Gap, official evening departure (Place Desmichels) to La Bréole, Selonnet, Avançon and Notre-Dame-du-Laus for a solid taste of things to come, and first-time detour via the roads of the Drôme and Alpes de Haute-Provence, before hitting the roads of Dévoluy, Champsaur valley (and the infamous Col de Moissière) and Bâtie-Neuve. This Alpine adventure in the footsteps of world champion Sébastien Ogier promises to be intense – to say the least – prior to the heats in Monaco and La Vésubie.
30e Ice climbing Écrins
January 9th to 12th, 2020
Argentière-la-Bessée, Hautes-Alpes
Bringing together the world’s top glacier climbers A major meeting in the corner of a region when mountain legends have been written for over a century and where the world’s finest mountaineers have tackled such emblematic peaks as the Barre des Écrins, La Meije, Le Pelvoux and many more….
Paris-Nice cyclist
March 8th to 15th, 2020
Nice
This prestigious cycling race marks the opening of the international cycling season.
32e Derby de la Meije
March 30th to April 5th, 2020
La Grave, Hautes-Alpes
A mythical freeride ski race in the wild valleys of La Meije.
Exhibitions
Van Gogh, starry night
March 1st, 2019 to January 20th, 2020
Carrières de Lumières, Les Baux-de-Provence
This digital and immersive exhibition presents Vincent Van Gogh’s most significant masterpieces at the 7,000-square-metre Carrières de Lumières multimedia centre. Visitors enjoy a voyage to the heart of the master’s major works and various stages of his life. The exhibition particularly focuses on the relationship between the painter and his working methods. It also highlights the continuous dialogue between light and darkness revealed by Van Gogh’s powerful brush strokes and intense colours.
Next shows: From March 6th, 2020 to January 2021 – The Painter DALI and for the short show, the architect GAUDI
Man Ray et la mode
October 19th to January 23rd, 2020
Musée Borély, Marseille
This exhibition presents a little-known aspect of the work of Man Ray, a major artist who revolutionized the strictly-documentary face of fashion photography. Introduced to Dadaist then Surrealist artists, he very-rapidly became the official photographer of Paul Poiret, Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel, and also worked for Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair and Vogue. The exhibition focuses on the continuous debate between “art for. Head to Marseille !
2020, Jean Giono’s year in Provence
October 30th to February 17th, 2020
Mucem, Marseille
Giono retrospective at the Mucem.
Exhibiting 300 manuscripts – virtually all of the author’s works – for the very first time.
Curator: Emmanuelle Lambert.
Fairs & Festivals
Nice Carnaval
February 15th to 29th 2020
Nice
2020 Theme: King of Fashion. One of the world’s biggest carnivals, the Nice Carnival ranks high among the Côte d’Azur’s foremost winter flagship events. Two weeks of jubilation for Nice, filled with spectacular and creative processions accompanied by musicians and dancers from the four corners of the globe.
87ème fête du Citron (Lemon festival)
February 15th to March 3rd, 2020
Menton
Citrus fruit compositions at the Jardins Biovès and a procession of floats decorated with lemons and oranges. Not to be missed too: the International Orchid Festival and “Salon de l’Artisanat du Pays Mentonnais” craft fair at the Palais de l’Europe.
