Special envoy to Alba-la-Romaine
The Ardèche has another treasure than the caillette, a culinary specialty made from pork: the Alba-la-Romaine circus festival.
Suddenly in 2009, it replaced the theater festival.
At the foot of the medieval castle in black and white stone which stands on a rocky peak in the middle of a valley of forests and scrubland, we went from the
Satin Shoe
to the party led by a clown: Alain Reynaud, of the New Noses , well known as Félix Tampon, is at the head of this vast celebration.
“
I was inspired by monks who want to dedicate every hour of the day to a particular intention
,” says Alain Reynaud.
If he abandoned the flight of the hot air balloon in the sunrise, he maintains the specificity of each moment of these crazy days.
The festival brings about twenty thousand people to the site for five days.
Maybe more this year, after two summers of abstinence.
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