Tignes Events

5 days of freestyle competitions bring together some of the best talent around today across a variety of disciplines. Expect to see freeride boarding and freestyle skiing as well as MTB and motocross on snow!

A prize pot of €150 000 ensures that all competitors will be pushing it to the limit...

The Association of Freeride Professionals brings 44 of the world's best freeskiers and snowboarders to the Grand Balme to compete in a series of qualifiers for World supremacy ranking. Having already visited North America, Russia and Switzerland the athletes will be judged on 5 essential criterias: line choice and execution, fluidity, control, skill and style, and rhythm/agressivity.

The Winter X-Games is for many the highlight of the winter extreme sports calendar. Drawing the biggest names in freestyle ski, snowboard and snowmobile to the slopes to compete for the title of X-games champion, traditionally the X-Games has been an American event but 2010 sees ESPN and Canal + join forces to present the first ever European X-Games.

Previous winners of the X-Games title have included legends like Shaun White, Pep Fujas, Torah Bright and Britain’s very own Jenny Jones.

Happy Gay Snow Week returns to Tignes for each year in what never fails to be a great event! There are cocktail parties, masquerade parties, pool parties and more as well as the SnowGaymes - an international gay and lesbian ski and snowboard contest.

Some of Europes most famous gay party organisers (for example: Salvation, La Demence, Jungle) are brought onboard to ensure that each Happy Gay Snow Week is the best ever!

Nominated for the Yourope Best European Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards 2008, and billed as a “cool little boutique festival” by the Sunday Times Style Magazine, TignesFest is a dynamic alpine music event held in one of the top rated (and highest!) ski resorts in the world - Tignes.

Running for 5 days in mid-April, TignesFest features everything from live bands to DJs and exclusive acoustic sets. It’s also a long weekend of skiing, snowboarding, socialising and sounds for the discerning and curious who like to experience something outside of the norm. Best and most important of all, the event is FREE!

Fête de la Musique is the celebration that takes place every summer solstice on 21st June in cities, towns and villages across France. More than a music festival, the Fête de la Musique is a free event that spills out from the bars and restaurants onto the streets and encompasses every type of music imaginable, from local amateur teen bands to professional classical musicians, from club DJ’s to traditional folk bands.

Launched in 1982 by the French Ministry for Culture, the Fete is different from a music festival in that all the concerts and performances are free to the public and none of the artists are paid.

The Fete de la Musique is now celebrated all over the world, where it is more commonly refered to as World Music Day.

Fête de la Musique is one of those certain nights throughout the year when the French authorities waive normal licensing laws, allowing the revelry to continue as long as there are people with the stamina to enjoy it – it is definitely one of the not-to-be-missed events of the summer social calendar!

The Pro Beach Soccer tournament takes place over 3 days each year in Tignes: on the highest beach in Europe. Yes they even build a beach and a stadium for the event!

3 days of events, the best European teams in competition ...and none other than Eric Cantona!!! He and his brother are the major faces of the competition that is world renowned - you might even have spotted this competition on the extreme channel.

The atmosphere is like a Brazilian carnival and even non-football fans will have a great time.

Every summer France is gripped by the biggest and best cycle race in Europe - Le Tour de France. The Alps have played a large part in the race over the years with the gruelling mountain climbs providing some of the most exciting spectacles of the event. The route changes slightly each year, taking in different towns and villages along the way. Even if the race doesn't pass near to where you are this summer you can guarantee that it will still be avidly watched in bars and cafés around the country with everyone joining in to cheer on the famous yellow jersey! ... see "Le Tour de France" for more

For 3 days each July Tignes plays host to the annual Pro-Am Ski Golf International. A unique competition that combines both professionals and amateurs from the worlds of golf and ski.

On the first day, the competition begins with a giant slalom on the Grande Motte glacier, and culminates with a round of golf on day 2 on the 18 hole course in Tignes Le Lac. The team with the most points after the 2 events.....wins!

Like the jib-vid and outdoor games competitions Cameride is a photography and video competition. Teams are made up of riders, photographers and camera men who have just a few days to produce the best film they can showcasing their skills in-front and behind the lens. First launched in 2008 and going from strength to strength if you can ride and you can shoot you should enter Cameride.

Every summer Tignes hosts the annual Fete du Vin de France - Festival of the Wines of France. The main street, usually home to the market on Thursdays and Sundays, will be populated with white wine tasting tents as far as the eye can see. Well... at least as far as the end of the road anyway.

Vinyards from all over France will be represented offering everything from big reds to pink Champagne and everything inbetween. This is a great chance to try a variety of wines and to stock up your wine cellar. The festival runs for 5 days in the centre of Le Lac.

Tignes has a long history of international mogul events; in 1986 it hosted the first ever Mogul World Cup and in 1992 held the now legendary Mogul Olympics.

Each December Tignes welcomes some of the world's best mogul freestylers for the first stage of the Mogul World Cup; an event where you can see some incredible skiing on display!