SAINT-ETIENNE
The seven hills around the famous green vest and design make this appealing city resolutely modern and dynamic. Saint Etienne is a vibrant heart of an urban area with a privileged position in the midst of a preserved natural environment such as the Loire Gorges and the Pilat Regional Nature Park that make the city so attractive. Towards the end of the 18th century the arms manufacture was the main activity. In the 19th century the town developed rapidly and coal mining reached its peak; metallurgy, bicycle and ribbon factories constituted the three other pillars of Saint-Etienne’s industry.
Nowadays, with the transformation of the town’s image due to urban renovation, Saint-Etienne is classified as a “Town of Art and History” and tackles interest.
Modern Art and Design, especially, the Design centre and the Biennial of Design event, the Zenith Architecture design by Norman Foster and the Le Corbusier site offer a large range of curiosities. The famous Geoffroy Guichard Stadium also belongs to the town’s heritage and can be visited.
Not to be missed to visit also: The Museum of Modern Art, one of the greatest national and international institutions, specialised in modern and contemporary art collections and exhibitions. The Museum of Art and Industry ranges from the history of ribbons and weapons to bicycle manufacturing. The Puits Couriot Coal Mining Museum offers a tour into a mine gallery and other places relating the miner’s work and their lives on the site of one of the largest extraction centres.
Saint-Etienne is a great place for sports, leisure and cultural entertainment and for surprising discoveries.

WHAT’S ON...

Festival George Cziffra
2009 – March 6 to 8
It unites a group of confirmed concert artists, laureates of Foundation George Cziffra. For 16 years, these musicians of big talent come in the Church of the Market town to share their love of music with you in the spirit of the special virtuoso whom was the master George Cziffra.

Festival of the Seven Hills
2009 - from July 1 to July 11
The Festival of the 7 Hills offers contemporary and international creations in the fields of the circus, dance, theatre, performance, puppet, cinema, and music.
The Festival of the 7 Hills devotes itself as objective to awaken the curiosity of all publics by introducing the most innovative creators of our epoch. Artists, profoundly engaged in their art, who jostle codes and reinvent living show. With a resolutely modern programming (what does not mean elitist), multidisciplinary and international we want to favour rich and unusual meetings in the domains of the circus, dance, theatre, performance and puppet, with shows most often unpublished in France. This demonstration has as vocation to promote artistic discovery first of all in a convivial mind. It contacts all and the played rates remain approachable (between 8 - 12 €).

SPECIAL OFFERS

Welcoming persents:
• A speciality stéphanoise (Chocolate Weiss)
• A free visit in the choice in:
Civic centre Corbusier
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Art and Industry
Museum of the Mine
Museum of Old Saint-Étienne
Spacecraft Planetarium
• A file of individual reception

City of Art and History Saint-Etienne is situated in the heart of a territory in the exceptional natural heritage, the Gorges of the Loire and the Regional Natural Park of Pilat. Not to miss : the Village of le Corbusier's architecture, unique in Europe, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the City of the Design, the former architectural and industrial heritage , know-hows in the numerous museums and La Chartreuse of Ste-Croix-en-Jarez.
Arrival on Friday or Saturday. the tourist board will give you a specialty (Chocolate Weiss), brochures, and the TotemPass for visits.

Arrive on Friday or the Saturdays; mention operation ' Good weekend in city ' during your reservation to the hotelkeeper and use ' 2 nights of hotel for price d ' 1 '!

Come discover the territory of ' Saint-Étienne and its region ' the time of weekend...

Totem, Saint-Etienne and its region Tourist Office
booking service
tel 00 33 (0)4 77 49 39 02
information@sem-tourisme.co
www.tourisme-st-etienne.com

Direct TGV from Paris, by Lyon, 2h50m - Motorway A47 from Lyon (40 m) and A45 from Clermont-Ferrand (1h50m)

Saint-Etienne and its region with the TotemPass
2009 – from spring
Pass Totem in all offices of information of the Tourist office of Saint-Etienne and its region

TotemPass
Totem and his partners offer a check book favour in the service tourists.
Pass Totem is a passport for discovery culture and free time which gathers the whole tourist offer of the territory of Saint Steven Métropole.
Conceived as a fixed rate, its expression all inclusive includes free entrance, or an entrance with preferential rate for certain museums and various sites. (the Carthusian monastery of Sainte-Croix-en-Jarez, the site Corbusier, the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Art and Industry, Museum of the Mine, Museum of old Saint-Étienne, City of Art and History, the Memorial of the Resistance and Deportation, the protective Workshop of the best workers of France, the Ecomuseum of Bruneaux, the Home of Passementier, the Home of Heritage and Measure, the Home of Braids and Shoelaces, the miellerie of the Throats of the Loire, the Home of Nature, the Home of the Spacecraft, the zoo of Saint-Martin-La-Plaine, Max adventures Park, the Space of relaxation Néliane).
Other advantage: an access to transport STAS and FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY (line Saint-Étienne / Firminy).
A choice of three rates is offered according to the period of validity which spreads out from 1 to 3 days.
1 day: 10 €
2 days: 15 €
3 days: 20 €