Saint-Fons: Art, Theatre and a Circular Walk

Discover Saint-Fons through a range of highlights: a 6.4-kilometre circular walk, contemporary art, theatre, artworks and a regular market. If you’re looking for a hotel in Saint-Fons, it helps to decide first what brings you here. A visit to the market depends on specific mornings, while a theatre visit depends on the programme; art and walking offer other concrete themes for planning your trip.

Circular Walk in Saint-Fons

“Sur les pas de l’Unicornis” is a circular walk in Saint-Fons. It is 6.4 kilometres long and starts in Saint-Fons Centre. Its starting point and distance give you two concrete details to help decide whether the walk should be a focus of your stay. You can reach the walk by taking bus line 60 to the Saint-Fons Mairie stop. If you plan to travel by bus, check the timetable for line 60 for the day of your visit.

Contemporary Art and Theatre

The CAP Centre d’art in Saint-Fons supports artistic creation and promotes awareness of contemporary art. Its programme includes exhibitions, artist residencies, multidisciplinary projects and cultural events. The focus is therefore on different forms of artistic work and public engagement. If contemporary art is a highlight of your stay, the CAP is a specific point of interest.

The Théâtre Jean Marais is a municipal theatre in Saint-Fons. Its programme ranges from theatre and music to dance, street and circus arts, puppetry and socially engaged theatre. This offers a different cultural focus from the CAP, with an emphasis on a variety of performing arts and events. If you’d like to plan your visit around a specific performance, check the programme and event dates in advance.

Church and Artworks

The Eglise Notre Dame du Rosaire was built in 1867. The stained-glass windows in the nave and transept, as well as the rose window, were created by the artist Joël Mône in 1998. This makes it easy to distinguish the building’s history from its later artistic additions. The Pyramide du centenaire is an artwork by Kate Blacker, created in 1988. Compared with the stained-glass windows created in 1998, it dates from ten years earlier—another point of reference for the different artworks.

Marché Forains and Planning Your Visit

The Marché Forains takes place on Place Durel every Tuesday and Saturday morning. Alongside food, it offers commercial goods, including clothing, shoes and household items. If you’d like to visit the market, you can plan your stay around one of these mornings. The market provides a fixed day-of-the-week reference, while planning a theatre visit depends on the specific programme.

These different planning points can help you choose the focus of your trip: the market takes place on two mornings a week, theatre events have their own dates, and the circular walk is defined by its starting point and distance. If your stay depends on a particular date, plan your travel around it. Otherwise, you can first decide whether culture, art or the circular walk is your priority, then look for a hotel in Saint-Fons.

Discover more destinations: Monsols, Charnay, La Mulatière, Montagny, Saint-Cyr-Au-Mont-d'Or, Saint-Genis-Laval, Saint-Pierre-La-Palud, Pierre-Bénite.

For the regional travel overview: Rhône.