• The Brittany Games will take place in Nantes, from July 1 to 10, 2022.

  • Many Breton sports disciplines will be represented, like the Olympic Games.

  • Alongside the sports competitions, ten days of celebrations around Breton culture are planned.

Nantes will be the capital of Brittany in 2022. For ten days, from July 1 to 10, the city will organize the first edition of the Games in Brittany. This great festival aims to bring together lovers of Brittany under the sign of sport and culture. "It is an event that aims to be offbeat, ambitious and atypical," says Florian Le Teuff, deputy for the city of Nantes, delegate for Breton issues and co-chairman of the organizing committee for these Games.

For this first, the organizers are ambitious.

The five departments of historic Brittany (Finistère, Côtes-d'Armor, Morbihan, Ille-et-Vilaine and Loire-Atlantique) will compete through many traditional Breton sports disciplines.

More than 10,000 participants representing their respective departments will be in competition and “more than 100,000 spectators” are expected on these ten days of celebration, in the colors of Gwenn ha Du.

“The fact that it is in Nantes is not trivial,” says Florian Le Teuff.

Sports, fest-noz and Breton pancakes

About fifty clubs and associations will be present to try to win the 60 medals at stake. On the program of these festivities: tug of war, Breton wrestling (gouren), Gaelic football, throwing straw bales ... Many competitions will take place at heart of the City of the Dukes, on the Cours Saint-André. The first edition of the Foulées de Bretagne (13.5 km) will bring together 2,000 runners. For Breton shuffleboard fans, the organizing committee is talking about the “biggest board shuffleboard tournament in the world”.

The Jeux de Bretagne are also ten days of music with numerous concerts and a big fest-noz in the courtyard of the castle of the Dukes of Brittany.

Without forgetting the promotion of local gastronomy: pancakes, cider and craft beers will be in the spotlight during these ten days when regional culture will take hold of Nantes.

A first which will bring others, since the organizing committee plans to renew the Games of Brittany each year.

In Nantes or elsewhere.

Obviously in one of the five departments of historic Brittany. 

Reindeer

Parties are part of our identity

Society

Brittany: "We are attacking our language" ... The defenders of Breton will give voice

  • Tradition

  • Society

  • Sport

  • Nantes