Events
Roquemaure hosts the annual St Valentine La Fête du Baiser ("Festival of the Kiss"), a kissing festival which began in 1989 and attracts over 20,000 people. The town is known as "La Capitale des Amoureux", or "The Capital of Lovers". The town operates a winery named after Saint Valentine (Cave Saint Valentine), as well as a specialty post office that seals envelopes with a kiss.
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