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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.