LES ARTISANALES DE CHARTRES 2011

Handicraft Chartres is a city that gets in tune for you in the best conditions. Chartres and you is a story being written already!

Dates and Times:

Friday, October 7, 2011 from 12:00 to 22:00

Saturday 8 and Sunday, October 9, 2011 from 10:00 to 20:00

Monday, October 10, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Rates

Admission price: 7 €

Free for children under 16 years

Free for craftsmen and apprentices subject to presentation of their card or RM Student Apprentice Trades

Free for disabled

Rendezvous Crafts for 17 years, Artisan Chartres offer the opportunity to discover the First Company of France for four days.

It is on the site Chartrexpo, decorated capitals impressive that this meeting takes place each year on the second weekend of October.

Crafts in Action

The craft is a richness and diversity still too little known today. Therefore Handicraft Chartres exist and offer discovery, education and fun through demonstrations , events and tastings to 70,000 visitors who come each year.

Nearly 500 exhibitors and 150 open trades to the curiosity of visitors every year. Hence its name of "greatest living workshops.

Between tradition and modernity

The diversity of trades and crafts in fact a panel rich traditional crafts as modern. We find examples for Handicraft Chartres, including eco-construction with a center that has all the latest technologies of sustainable development .

Training: crafts a job with prospects

Through its " Neighborhoods Crafts , spaces dedicated to training institutions in the Region Centre (Apprentice Training, Vocational High Schools), the Artisan of Chartres is also an opportunity to establish or confirm his future professional vocation.

In these areas, young people take turns to give demonstrations of their daily activity of the food to services , through the craft of building , f