Rennes: for an authentic 100 % event

Rich and surprising, it will give your professional seminar an authentic conviviality and festive accents absolutely incomparable! Located only 90 minutes from Paris by TGV and less than an hour from Saint-Malo and Mont-Saint-Michel, the former capital of the Dukes of Brittany opens its doors to you!

A historic city with a prestigious past that has become a regional metropolis, it has a vitality that places it at the top of many charts in terms of population and economy. First in the ranking of the most populated agglomerations of 200,000 to 500,000 inhabitants. "business friendly"¹, 8^th French university town²The company has demonstrated its talent in the new technologies and digital sector in major centres of excellence. It is also particularly good to live and work³ in this green city (41m² of parks and gardens per inhabitant!), renowned for its cultural and festive events.

Thanks to the Jacobins Convent converted into a congress centre and its 4,000 rooms, Rennes hosted 151,265 congress days in 2018. Both heritage and modern, it has all the assets to enhance the value of your professional event.

Accessibility

Fourteen direct TGV trains connect Rennes to Paris every day. In 2019, the new multimodal station with the establishment of the Eurorennes business district and the opening of the second metro line will definitely make Rennes an even more accessible and attractive metropolis.

Rennes can also count on its airport serving 14 European destinations and 13 national routes with direct flights.

The Accor network in Rennes

Thirteen establishments offer services adapted to your event, whatever its format, style and budget, from the ibis Styles to the Balthazar Hotel & Spa Rennes - MGallery located in the historic heart.

Some ideas for incentives in Rennes

Rennes is full of unusual activities and experiences that will guarantee you a seminar with a strong character.

The visit of the historic city, with its ramparts and its emblematic gates, its 280 half-timbered houses, its prestigious buildings such as the Parliament of Brittany in the 17th century.^e century, are proving to be unavoidable. Especially if you plan to stop at the traditional Lices market, one of the biggest in France, to taste a Breton hot dog (buckwheat and sausage cake)!

But the town centre can also be visited in street art version, with an original route that highlights the graffiti, collages, stencils and stickers of the famous graffiti artists Blu, War, Aryz and Mardi Noir.

With one festival in Rennes per week all year round, you will always find, whatever the season, the one that will spice up your event. Street arts, rock, traditional Breton songs and dances, these "fest-noz" (literally "night parties") are a festival of authenticity and sharing, and will take you in their wake!

¹ Ranking L'Entreprise-L' Expansion-Ellisphère (2016)
² Student city rankings on letudiant.fr (2016-2017)
³ 1^re city where it's good to live and work in the L'Express national rankings (2017)