FÊTE DE LA QUINTAINE

If you have the chance to be there, don't miss this traditional semi-pagan semi-pagan feast that has been taking place since 1620. The feast of the Quintaine takes place every year in November, it is dedicated to Saint Léonard, patron of the prisoners. The day before, the grand-mass takes place in the collegiate to bless the Quintaine, a small prison of procession strolls in the old streets of the city of Saint-Léonard-de-Purse, accompanied by the procession of the brandons and the sound of the old. At the end of the day, the riders destroy the dummy dungeon whose spectators have to retrieve the songs (which are happy). The time has come to share a drink and a meal at the stands mounted on the square.