Travel & experience pétanque
Training camps around the world, travel packages with competition and accommodation, destination guides, travel companions, club exchanges — and the sport's heritage with a Hall of Fame, archives and museums.
Training camps · find camps worldwide
Travel packages · competition + accommodation in one
Tourist package Höllviken
Competition + 2 nights accommodation + gala dinner
📅 14–16 Aug
from SEK 2,900 Book package
The Mondial trip, Marseille
La Marseillaise + hotel + guided tours
📅 2–7 Jul
from SEK 7,400 Book package
Euro package Sjöstad 2027
Full pass + hotel + shuttle
📅 1–7 Jun 2027
from SEK 5,900 Book package
Destination guides
Pétanque in Provence
The best boulodromes, local clubs, the season’s tournaments and where to eat well after the game.
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Boule weekend in Sjöstad
The city’s courts, the clubs that welcome guests and the evening culture programme.
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Thailand in winter
Boulodromes, climate, visas and the big open tournaments.
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Boule-friendly accommodation · catalogue
Travel companions · find someone to travel with
Karin, 58 · Nordvik
Looking for travel company to La Marseillaise in July. Happy to share a rental car.
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Ali, 34 · Sjöstad
Winter camp Alicante — anyone else from the west coast going?
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Marta, 41 · Fjällby
Euro 2027 — planning a camper-van trip, room for 2 more.
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Club exchange · twin clubs & hosting
The platform matches clubs that want to host guests and send their own members on exchanges.
Nordviks BK ↔ Boule Club Lyon
wk 28 with us · wk 36 in Lyon · 12 + 8 participants
Confirmed Fjällby BF ↔ PC Alicante
spring 2027 · interest sign-up open
Matching in progress Celebrate & book events · photogenic venues
Heritage & history
From La Ciotat 1910 to Sjöstad today
Pétanque was born when rheumatic Jules Lenoir could no longer take a run-up — and the game played with feet planted on the ground ("pieds tanqués") spread from Provence to the whole world. Read the story of how the boules evolved, the Swedish pioneer clubs and how the sport reached the Nordics in the 1960s.
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Hall of Fame · legends
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Gunnar "The Precision" Holm
1934–2011
National gold ×9 · World Championship bronze 1971 · inducted 1998
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Astrid Lindqvist
b. 1948
European gold 1979 · pioneer of women’s boule · inducted 2004
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Jean-Paul Mercier
b. 1962
Professional in Marseille · coach of three national teams · inducted 2019
Historical competition archive
Museums & exhibitions
🏛 The Boule Museum Sjöstad
Permanent · the history of the boule 1850–today
Wed–Sun 11–17
🏛 Exhibition: "Iron & gravel"
Photo exhibition · Nordvik art gallery
5 May – 30 Aug
Culture calendar · festivals & events
Sjöstad Boule Days (city festival)
📅 2–4 Jun
Free · drop-in boule, food market, music
Pétanque & Pastis evening
📅 19 Jul
Brasserie Cochonnet · cultural-history tasting
Veterans’ storytelling night
📅 14 Oct
The Boule Museum · legends tell their stories
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