Foire du Trône, funfair

A funfair unlike anything you've ever seen!

With over 350 attractions and rides on an area of 10 hectares (25 acres), the Foire du Trône is the most popular funfair in France.

Taking place on the Pelouse de Reuilly, or "Reuilly lawn", this fair requires no less than 1,400 professionals to tend the various attractions, rides and stands.

Expect a Ferris wheel, a handful of roller coasters and haunted houses, and a vast array of traditional fairground attractions including the inevitable candy-floss stalls and rifle ranges.

The Foire du Trône actually dates back to the year 957, the year of the first fairs under King Lothaire, although it was called the Saint-Antoine Fair and was more of an open air market. Things have evolved a great deal since then, but the spirit is the same.

The Foire du Trône remains the largest and one of the most prestigious funfairs in Europe.