Poitiers - Futuroscope

Terraced over the Clain valley, the Parc de Blossac is one of the most beautiful public spaces in France. Designed in the 18th century, different gardens are available for a visit full of surprises: French and English gardens, light and shade garden, the Grand Pré, the rock garden and the zoological park.

Step through the porch of the Hotel de l'Europe*** and enter this former coaching inn with 87 elegant rooms of various categories. First, enjoy our lounge bar bathed in light before heading to our garden, ideal for a moment of respite.

From 7 am onwards, come and enjoy a good breakfast in the form of a buffet composed of local, home-made or organic products. Around the hotel, several restaurants will welcome you. If you come by car, a private parking lot awaits you.

Hôtel Ibis Poitiers Centre: in the heart of downtown Poitiers.



The Ibis Poitiers Centre hotel, located in the historic and commercial heart of Poitiers, is an ideal stopover for a business or leisure stay. It offers 75 air-conditioned rooms with free WIFI access, a bar with snack bar, 14 private parking spaces (fee payable) and a 30 m² meeting room. Close to restaurants, Place de l'Hôtel de Ville terraces, pedestrian streets and historic monuments.

This establishment is ISO 14001 certified.



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Poitiers, Ville d'Art et d'Histoire (City of Art and History), with the Chemins de Notre Dame, which take visitors on a free tour of Poitiers' historic treasures and old quarters.

Right in the historic heart of downtown Poitiers, this 4-star hotel offers 42 comfortable, spacious, bright rooms and 6 individually decorated suites, spread over 3 floors and accessible by elevator.

In-room amenities include courtesy tray, air conditioning, satellite TV, hairdryer, safe, and free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel.

A regional buffet breakfast is served in your room, in the dining room or on our sunny terrace in summer, from 7:00 to 10:30 a.m.

Other facilities: room service, elevator, rooms for people with reduced mobility (PRM), free luggage storage, internet point at reception with free access, lounge/bar at hotel reception, 2 seminar rooms of 50 m2 that can be converted into 1 large room of 100 m2.

The hotel has a 20-space garage and bicycle storage, and is close to the Hôtel de Ville public parking lot.

A stopover on the way to Compostela since the 12th century, the church of Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand is located south of Poitiers, not far from the Parc de Blossac. Rebuilt in the 19th century, it retains the original massive pillars in the nave, a choir and an ambulatory from the Romanesque period. It stands on the presumed site of the tomb of Saint-Hilaire, the first bishop of Poitiers.

After admiring its four-apse chevet, you enter to discover its choir and its Romanesque transept of impressive height and great luminosity. You linger in its four chapels decorated with Romanesque wall paintings (11th century) representing a scene from the Apocalypse. And to learn more about Saint-Hilaire, you look at the capital dedicated to his death and the small crypt called confession, which houses his relics.

In addition to a 9-hole course with 18 tee-offs, the Poitiers-Châlons Golf Club offers several practice areas (driving range, putting green, approach areas, courses adapted to the youngest). It is accessible to outside players (members and occasional players) at more than favorable conditions (price, quality of maintenance, privileged geographical situation at 5mn from downtown).

The staff will be pleased to welcome you at the club house every day of the week.

Poitiers, an ancient fortified city, sits on a rocky spur. Several towers testify today to this rich medieval past. Surrounded by two rivers and as many green valleys, the historic center is locally nicknamed "the plateau". At the top of this vast promontory stand two of its most beautiful monuments, the palace of the Counts of Poitou and the church of Notre-Dame-la-Grande. Along the narrow streets, mansions from the Renaissance period mingle with timber-framed houses from the Middle Ages. The prefecture and the town hall are evidence of the Haussmannian style of the 19th century.

As for the two glass parallelepipeds that you can see, shining with a thousand yellows, on the west side, they house the shows of the Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers (TAP) all year round. The city known as "the city of a hundred steeples" is erudite, cultural, festive, and a place for the arts

Hôtel Continental: opposite Poitiers TGV station and at the foot of the city center.



The Original Hôtel Poitiers Continental is ideally located for both business and leisure stays, with rapid access from major roads.



24-hour reception. Breakfast from 5am. Free Wi-Fi. Luggage drop-off possible in front of the hotel, public parking 5?/24h.



Poitiers, Ville d'Art et d'Histoire (City of Art and History), with the Chemins de Notre Dame, which take visitors on a free tour of Poitiers' historic treasures and old quarters.

Just a few steps from shops, the station and the theater, on the site of the former chapel, the Mercure Poitiers Centre combines modern, bold furnishings with the elegance and authenticity of the chapel's architecture.



We also offer 50 unusual rooms and a restaurant in the heart of a church!



We no longer accept pets in our rooms or breakfast room.

At the Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers, follow a panorama of regional archaeology. Beautiful paleolithic engravings in the Grotte de la Marche represent prehistory. Then the visitor enters the city of the Pictons of Gallo-Roman antiquity under the protective gaze of Athena, a marble statue of the 1st century AD. He discovers sculpted sarcophagi from Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages, and a beautiful series of sculptures reminds him of the extraordinary influence of the Roman workshops in Poitou.

The fine arts course is based on painted and sculpted works from the 14th to the middle of the 20th century. The great artistic currents of the 19th century, neoclassicism, orientalism, ingrism, symbolism, invite you to the works of Camille Claudel. The beginning of the 20th century is brilliantly illustrated by modern art with great artists such as Bonnard, Sisley, ...

Jewel of the city of Poitiers, Notre-Dame-la-Grande is a collegiate church of the 11th century. Inside, you will discover the paintings with Romanesque-Byzantine motifs of the nave, the frescoes of the choir and the crypt (12th century), the side chapels of the 15th and 16th centuries, including that of Yvon du Fou, grand seneschal of Poitou, and the statue of Notre-Dame-des-Clés, a reference of the legend of the miracle of the keys.

The reputation of Notre-Dame-la-Grande comes from its remarkable facade of the 12th century, meticulously sculpted, the most perfect form of Romanesque architecture in Poitou. It reads like a picture book and shares great episodes from the Bible and the Gospels, such as the Temptation of Adam and Eve or the Nativity. Every evening at 10:30 pm in summer and during the Christmas vacations at 6 pm, the Polychromies come to highlight the pages of this story.