Events and festivals in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on October 3-4, 2026: the Foire du Dauphiné draws more than 400 exhibitors in Romans-sur-Isère, alongside comics in Chambéry, romantic music in Aix-les-Bains and food in Thonon-les-Bains.
Saturday, at the Glycines site, in Romans-sur-Isère. The Foire du Dauphiné runs there through October 5. Events and festivals in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on October 3-4, 2026: the Foire du Dauphiné draws more than 400 exhibitors in Romans-sur-Isère, alongside comics in Chambéry, romantic music in Aix-les-Bains and food in Thonon-les-Bains.
The Foire du Dauphiné in Romans-sur-Isère
The Glycines site, in Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme. The Foire du Dauphiné was born there in 1930, to revive the local economy after the 1929 crisis, and has counted since among the first fairs in France, and among the major fairs of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It returns every year, in late September.
More than 400 exhibitors occupy 23,000 square metres on the site, spanning housing, food, cars, tourism, new technology and craftwork, astride late September and early October. It runs close to ten days. Rides and concerts join the trade and public stands. The site sits in the La Monnaie district.
Open since September 26, the fair runs through October 5, 2026, taking in both Saturday, October 3, and Sunday, October 4 (3-4 October). Visitors cross paths there with local craftspeople. Other exhibitors show the latest in housing, cars or mobility, in a single place, over several days. The October 3-4 weekend falls within these ten open days.
The rest of the weekend
Since 1977, the International Comics Festival has brought together dozens of authors and illustrators at Savoiexpo, in Chambéry, for a weekend of signings, exhibitions, talks and meetings, one of the oldest comics festivals in France, run by the association Chambéry BD for fans of comics, manga and illustration. In Chamalières, the Royat-Chamalières Book Fair opens its doors. The duo Steel Alive sets up the Alive Dub Festival in the woods, in Saint-Jean-Saint-Maurice-sur-Loire, for two days of sound system powered by the Dub Addict Sound System. Founded in 1995, the Nuits Romantiques du Lac du Bourget closes its ten days of classical music this Sunday, with internationally renowned artists gathered to celebrate the Romantic repertoire across the town's heritage sites and the shores of Lac du Bourget.
The Jazz Club de Grenoble has organised the Grenoble Alpes Métropole Jazz Festival in Fontaine since 2005, filling about ten partner venues of the metropolitan area with contemporary jazz, swing, soul, funk and Brazilian music. Chefs, craftspeople and producers gather in Thonon-les-Bains, on the shores of Lake Geneva, for Toques en Chablais: cooking workshops, a producers' market, the Challenge des Mains d'Or pastry contest and the suspended meal Dinner in the Sky, at the Parc du Belvédère.
Across Drôme and Ardèche, les Turlupinades stop for a single day, with free tabletop games open to all from 10am to 6pm, in a different town each year. The Vivarais Cinema Festival closes on Saturday.