Tours operators

The Tourist Office is here to help you in the planning of your stay, your visits and your group activities in Conques and its surroundings. We invite you to view the following downloadable documents to prepare your group program. These documents are mostly available in French.

For information related to Group Tour Operators, click here.

Click here for thematic stays for groups.

The Tourist Office is always eager to receive members of the profession. We are available to help you discover, as a priviledged guest, the rich heritage of Conques, in order for you to realize your project in the best conditions.
This welcoming and accompanying can also be done in English and Spanish.

♦ The unmissable of Conques in English, available here.

Seminars and congress

Conques has many facilities to ally work and cultural discovery, in a priviledged environment. The Tourist Office of Conques is also available to help you prepare your company's stay in Conques (accomodation, restaurants, visits, ...)

The European Center of Conques is located near the historic center of Conques. It has a large welcoming capacity:

• a 400 seats auditorium (with writing boards), a 78m² stage
• a light and sound system and projection facilities
• a simutaneous translation booth in three langages
• lodges for artists and masters of conference
• a meeting room with 80 seats with audiovisuel equipment
• entrance and exhibition hall
• a bookshop area
• and an administrative and technical team to your service.

The Bibliothèque and the Centre de documentation historique (library and documentation center), located on the first floor of the townhall can be the location for your research or study work. It numbers a large collection of printed works as well as important archival documents. These facility is open on Tuesday (14:00-18:00), Wednesday (9:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00) and Saturday (14:00-18:00). The townhall has also a few rooms available to rent for conferences and meetings.

The Centre européen (European center) located on the upper part of the village, has a large welcoming capacity, with numerous rooms and a spacious amphitheater for any symposium, conference or seminar (see details above).

Welcoming school groups

Conques is a priviledged site for children and students discovering history, the heritage conservation, Romanesque art and the local economy. As a subject in the French school curriculum, the Middle Age era and its art find here the ideal place for a learning.

The Tourist Office is available to guide and advise any classroom (primary, secondary and university levels) in the discovery of the site of Conques, its architecture, its sculpture, the pilgrimages, the urbanism and the surrounding environments.

We can  provide schools and colleges with a dossier pédagogique (didactical file, in French), as a support material to prepare your school's stay in Conques. This file is available on request at the Tourist Office.

You can also download the file Séjours thématiques spécial scolaires, to help you prepare your visit of Conques and its district.

For further information, please contact the Tourist Office. The welcoming and guided tours can be done either in French, English or Spanish.

GROUPES DE PÈLERINS ET RANDONNEURS

Reportez-vous à la rubrique intitulée CHEMIN DE COMPOSTELLE, sur la page Accueil, ou à la rubrique LOISIRS, dans TOURISME, pour de plus amples informations, sur les possibilités d'accueil, de randonnées et autres informations pratiques à l'usage du randonneur ou pèlerin.