A giant Celtic festival attracts nearly one million people

The Interceltic Festival of Lorient is a major cultural gathering that is held every year in Brittany. Born in 1971 in the form of a simple competition of bagadoù, the event quickly opened up to the different expressions of the Celtic countries. It became at the end of the 1990s one of the largest French gatherings, with a peak of 800,000 visitors recorded in 2010.