page_title: Pauillac
section_title: Events and festivities
hierarchical_section_title: Pauillac / Events and festivities
context_page_description: Pauillac is a municipality in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The city is mid-way between Bordeaux and the Pointe de Grave, along the Gironde, the largest estuary in western Europe.
context_section_description: The Spring in the Castles (Printemps des Châteaux) takes place in April. Visits and wine tastings.
  The lamb festival takes place in June. Garage sales, gastronomic market and Pentecost regattas.
  The international film festival "Les Vendanges du 7ème Art" takes place in July.
  Every Tuesday and Thursday from mid-July to the end of August, a meeting with twenty winemakers is organized at the Tourist Office and Wine House.
  Every day from July to the end of August, a winemaker offers a free tasting at the Tourist Office and Wine House.
  Music and Cook and Wine takes place in August in front of the estuary in the Tourist Office and Wine House's gardens. Free concerts, free tastings with local winemakers and a food market with regional specialities.
  The Marathon du Médoc takes place in September. It is considered "the longest Marathon in the world" because the race is interspersed with several activities such as wine tasting stops and orchestras scattered around the course. Most of the 8,500 participants, representing more than 50 nations, run in costume.
caption: Marathon runners in Pauillac
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