📢 Les visites guidées du samedi 20 et du dimanche 21 avril sont exceptionnellement annulées, ainsi que la visite thématique "Faut-il restaurer le patrimoine ?", du dimanche 21 avril.
Le prieuré reste accessible en visite libre et en quête interactive "Mille ans d'histoire au prieuré de Pommiers".
Guided tours
Libre ou guidée, en version classique, flash ou thématique, la visite du prieuré s'offre à vous sous de multiples formes.
Profitez également des différentes animations, expositions et spectacles prévus tout au long de l'année.
Individual members of the public
The unguided tour (tour of the roofs not included)
Explore the history of the priory at your own pace. You are given a suggested tour route, with interpretation panels setting out the priory’s development from its beginnings through to the present day.
There is a tour booklet available at the priory’s reception (available in French, English, German, Italian and Spanish).
Time: between 30 and 60 min.
Guided tours (tour of the roofs included - booking is required)
Guided tours are in French and accompanied by a tour guide
- The conventional tour allows you to explore the site’s history and architecture. Accompanied by a tour guide, you can explore the various levels of the priory and find out about the phases in which it was built as you listen to the story of the links between the monastery and the powerful Cluny Abbey.
There is one tour which starts in the morning
Time: 90 min.
- - The exploration tour This shorter tour takes you from the basements to the roofs, and on the way you will meet the successive inhabitants of this former monastery, which then became a middle-class house, a retirement home and finally a heritage site to be preserved.
Tours start two to three times during the afternoon (depending on the time of year)
Time: 1 hour.
La visite guidée classique
La visite guidée flash des charpentes
Themed tours
You can explore Pommiers Priory and its various occupants all the year round based on regularly changing topics (archaeology of the buildings, reading the landscape, sketching tours, etc.) Please see the cultural schedule for more information.
See the schedule
Groups
The group tariff is applicable from ten paying tickets upwards.
Travel agencies, tourist offices, coach operators, associations, families or groups of friends, come and explore the history and architecture of the priory and the collections it contains on an unguided or guided tour.
Tours can be adapted for specific groups (retirement homes, associations and social and medical and social centres, prisons, etc.) Group leaders (educators, hosts) are asked to get directly in touch with the priory’s tour guides when making the booking so that we can make the most suitable arrangements for their groups.
Tours need to be paid for in one lump sum on site in cash, by cheque, credit or debit card or by payment of an invoice by bank transfer within forty-five days after the tour.
If there is a large number of people (more than thirty) taking part in a guided tour, the group may be split into two.
On the day of your tour, we ask you to arrive fifteen minutes before the tour’s start time (the booking time is the time that the tour starts) - this is for your own convenience. If you are late, the tour will be shortened by the relevant amount of time. The tour may be cancelled if the group arrives more than quarter of an hour after the tour’s start time.
For guided tours in foreign languages, you must contact the priory in advance in order to finalise the conditions for the tour and book. At the present time only tours in English can be provided.
Booking is required
Young people
Individual young people and families
In addition to traditional tours of the priory, workshops/tours and events lasting from ninety minutes to two hours are available for younger groups and families during the school holidays in order to take a look at heritage and local history in a way that is both unusual and fun.
New in 2022!
Pommiers Priory offers you the chance to go on a quest by travelling through the various periods of the monastery's history. Explore the various levels of this Historic Monument and find out about its history and architecture using a booklet packed with games and a digital tablet.
Booking is required
See the schedule
Leisure activities
On an unguided or guided tour, or via educational workshops, Pommiers Priory helps to get children interested as they explore many of the facets of this historic heritage site.
Booking is required
Leisure activities
On an unguided or guided tour, or via educational workshops, Pommiers Priory helps to get children interested as they explore many of the facets of this historic heritage site.
Booking is required
Disabled visitors
There are various spaces and mediation tools available for you to use at Pommiers Priory.
Although there are no parking spaces reserved for the disabled, you can park temporarily in front of the entrance to the reception building while you drop someone off.
Although we are able to welcome all kinds of people to our site, Pommiers Priory is a heritage site which has gone through many architectural changes. There are some parts of the building which do not allow disabled access (for instance there are staircases).
If you would like to ask for any information, please get in touch using our e-mail address, which is priory-pommiers@loire.fr, or by telephoning us on 04 77 65 46 22.
People with reduced mobility
Only the reception building, the terrace and ground floor of the priory (cloister, 17th-20th century reception rooms, 17th-18th century refectory, Salon Rouge, courtroom and chapter house) are fully accessible. You can also get to the church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul de Pommiers from the church square.
The basement of the original priory, the first floor (dormitory, 20th century chapel) and the roofs are accessible only by taking the straight or spiral staircases and are not suitable for wheelchairs. There are no lifts of any kind or ramps allowing access to these levels.
Folding chairs are available for anyone who has difficulties standing up for longer periods. Please ask for these at reception.
There is a tactile model of the priory and the village of Pommiers which you can use inside the reception building.
Adapted tours can be organised if you request this when making the booking.
Members of the public with visual disabilities
Given that there are difficulties involved in the tour (staircases, steps, low doors, etc.), we recommend that you bring someone with you when you visit the site.
Guide dogs are welcome at the priory.
The priory also has audio guides adapted to provide an audio description in French. A tactile model of the priory and the village of Pommiers, thermally expanded documents and sketchbooks in contrasting colours are also available at reception.
Adapted tours can be organised if you request this when making the booking.
Members of the public with cognitive disabilities
Specialist educators and hosts are asked to mention any unusual features of the group when making the booking, so that the tour can be adapted.
Members of the public with hearing disabilities
Pommiers Priory does not currently have any qualified staff able to provide a guided tour in French sign language.
There are interpretation panels with texts and visuals all along the tour route.
There is a tour booklet available at the priory’s reception (available in French, English, German, Italian and Spanish).
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