Festival de Saintes

If you have good taste, I recommend that you visit the Festival de Saintes. The Abbaye aux Dames is the chosen place to celebrate a new chapter of this great cultural event. Since its inception in the seventies, the artistic focus of the festival has changed over the past 40 years. Originally, the Saintes Festival was dedicated to an older style of music but is now open to many differnt styles. Each year, the festival reaches out to provide new and exciting music. For 10 days in July, the music of thirty concerts fills the walls of this temple from noon to midnight. Each festival hosts about 14,000 spectators from around the world in an exciting environment.