A traditional festival, the Romérage festival revives ancient local traditions in Lavandou. Let yourself be carried away where traditions meet the passion and fervor of beliefs. The Romérage festival is an enchanting event that immerses you in the roots of the picturesque history of Lavandou. This small fishing hamlet once linked to Bormes, Le Lavandou celebrates this festival every year punctuated with intoxicating trombone music, lively dances, and melodious songs.
Romérage between celebration and tradition
The Romerage festival revives an old local tradition. At the time when Le Lavandou was still only a little fishing hamlet attached to Bormes. Punctuated with trombonades, stops, songs and dances, the procession leads the participants from thechurch of Saint-Louis in front of the Saint-Clair chapel (2km).
Three sketches, performed on the Place du Romerage conclude this procession before making way for the folk dances : the Knighting of the prior, representing civil authority at the place of worship, the giving of offerings to the poor hermit and the Revelation of the White Penitents.
Le Romérage, what is it?
In Provençal, “Lou Romeirage” means " Trip to Rome ". Long used in this sense, it has, by extension, been used to evoke pilgrimages and processions. Once a year, the villagers religiously celebrated their patron – Saint-Clair – by organizing a long and solemn procession through the alleys. Since 1996, the district of Saint Clair, east of Lavandou, welcomes the bust of the Saint. Also patron of seamstresses, legend has it that he has the power to cure blindness.
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