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Office de tourisme, 16 avenue de la Libération, 42000 Saint-Étienne
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Take a walk round Saint-Étienne. Several even, in any order, in any direction. Why not start with the Cité du Design, for example.
No royal guns being made here these days, it's lofty ideas that queen it here now. Pick one up while you're there and hurry on to the Opéra to kiss Sleeping Beauty. After that head back to the Biennale (OK, we know it's not exactly logical to do in that order, but so what?) before going on to a match at the iconic stadium we call the Cauldron. Or the other way round. What counts, like we said, is to open your mind!

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Office de tourisme, 16 avenue de la Libération, 42000 Saint-Étienne

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Test Benches - Parcours des étoiles
Test Benches - Parcours des étoiles
Ah but in Saint-Étienne, benches are not just for sitting on. The Bancs d’Essai (Test Benches) scheme offers more curious passers-by the chance to take part in a life-size...
Saint-Étienne
Rue des Martyrs de Vingré
Rue des Martyrs de Vingré
Listen out - can't you hear the gentle murmur of running water? You are in Rue des Martyrs de Vingré and you are approaching Place Neuve, with its proud fountain reflecting the...
Saint-Étienne
Cube Gigogne
Cube Gigogne
Taking the archetypal shape of a house, Gigognes encloses within it a series of modules that can easily be separated and deployed.
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«Pouet» - Remi Jacquier
«Pouet» - Remi Jacquier
This sculpture has been standing on Place Chavanelle since 2006. Its shape, made of grey cast iron and steel, evokes a musical instrument into which you could blow.
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«‘R’ du large» - Gyslain Bertholon, Maxime Bourgeaux
«‘R’ du large» - Gyslain Bertholon, Maxime Bourgeaux
This installation by plastic artists Gyslain Bertholon and Maxime Bourgeaux presents a gathering of pigeons standing still, in silence. Made of cast iron and metallised zinc,...
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«Pas à pas» -Chantal Dugave
«Pas à pas» -Chantal Dugave
"A metal blade slices and lifts the ground in Chavanelle square. This movement creates an event sharpened by the mirror-like shine of polished stainless steel. Round plates of...
Saint-Étienne
Les colosses - Yannick Vey
Les colosses - Yannick Vey
These 3 metre by 2 metre colossi are made of cut steel plates.
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Musée d'Art et d'Industrie
Musée d'Art et d'Industrie
Guns, ribbons and bikes. Right away, you don't see the connection, and that's normal. Come and take a tour of the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, and you'll understand.
Saint-Étienne
Pulsations artwork Cours Jovin Bouchard
Pulsations artwork Cours Jovin Bouchard
Pulsations is a sound installation in the heart of a tree. Spectators can hear it and feel it physically when they are in contact with the trunk of the tree.
Saint-Étienne
Pulsations artwork Michelet
Pulsations artwork Michelet
Pulsations is a sound installation in the heart of a tree. Spectators can hear it and feel it physically when they are in contact with the trunk of the tree.
Saint-Étienne
Le MUR de Saint-Etienne
Le MUR de Saint-Etienne
The MUR de Saint-Etienne is a giant (8 m x 3 m) billboard that is occupied every month by a different guest artist. Now that puts some colour in a city's cheeks!
Saint-Étienne
Demeure Chamoncel, maison du patrimoine et des lettres
Demeure Chamoncel, maison du patrimoine et des lettresSaint-Étienne
La Place du Peuple
La Place du Peuple
A good name for a square - there are an awful lot of people coming and going and milling about on this emblematic city square! And for a view of the Grand'rue, it's ideal.
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Engrainage
Engrainage
Like a hanging constellation, a plethora of coloured spheres illuminates the main street of the city, casting light on all those below.
Saint-Étienne
Glass and metal poles - Place de l'hôtel de ville
Glass and metal poles - Place de l'hôtel de ville
Here, coloured blown glass and sheet metal work are not mere skills: they are the ingredients of a metamorphosis. Gone is the frozen square, designed to frame institutional...
Saint-Étienne
Test Benches - Salon 21S
Test Benches - Salon 21S
Ah but in Saint-Étienne, benches are not just for sitting on. The Bancs d’Essai (Test Benches) scheme offers more curious passers-by the chance to take part in a life-size...
Saint-Étienne
Test Benches - Kyoto bench
Test Benches - Kyoto bench
Ah but in Saint-Étienne, benches are not just for sitting on. The Bancs d’Essai (Test Benches) scheme offers more curious passers-by the chance to take part in a life-size...
Saint-Étienne
The bandstand
The bandstand
What if, after a film or a drink at a pavement café, you put yourself in a musician's shoes? Well, dance away!
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Test Benches - Mâtuvu
Test Benches - Mâtuvu
Banc d'essai - Test bench - is a life-size chance to try out in the public space the urban furniture imagined by designers and produced by local companies from the...
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stallation in-situ, place d'armes - Gimme Shelter, Nathalie Talec
stallation in-situ, place d'armes - Gimme Shelter, Nathalie Talec
"Gimme Shelter": an installation by Nathalie Talec, in-situ on the Place d'Armes de Saint-Etienne (in front of the Cité du Design). The artist has created a shelter of glass...
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La Fabuleuse Cantine grocery shop
La Fabuleuse Cantine grocery shop
In the heart of Saint-Étienne's former weapons factory, just a stone's throw from the Cité du Design, the Fabuleuse Cantine offers creative, gourmet, anti-gaspi, organic, local...
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Bar La Fabuleuse Cantine
Bar La Fabuleuse Cantine
So you don't find going back to the canteen a very attractive proposition? But wait until you discover the Fabuleuse Cantine: restaurant, bar, grocery shop, living space and...
Saint-Étienne
Pulsations artwork Cité du design
Pulsations artwork Cité du design
Pulsations is a sound installation in the heart of a tree. Spectators can hear it and feel it physically when they are in contact with the trunk of the tree.
Saint-Étienne
Restaurant La Fabuleuse Cantine
Restaurant La Fabuleuse Cantine
In the Manufacture creative district (the former Manufacture d'armes), the buildings are being brought back to life after a few years as a wasteland, and have become a...
Saint-Étienne
Test Benches - Confident pour confidences
Test Benches - Confident pour confidences
Ah but in Saint-Étienne, benches are not just for sitting on. The Bancs d’Essai (Test Benches) scheme offers more curious passers-by the chance to take part in a life-size...
Saint-Étienne
Le Fil
Le Fil
If you're a music lover, you're bound to have heard of it. Le Fil is a venue dedicated to contemporary music in the Plaine Achille district.
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La Comédie De Saint-Etienne
from6 €
La Comédie De Saint-EtienneSaint-Étienne
Village café Chapuis
from7.5 €
Village café Chapuis
Mmm, a smell of coffee in the air... Look no further, it's the coffee roastery at Café Chapuis that is (re)awakening your senses.
Saint-Étienne
Village Café Chapuis
Village Café Chapuis
Mmm, a smell of coffee in the air... Look no further, it's the coffee roastery at Café Chapuis that is (re)awakening your senses.
Saint-Étienne
Zénith
Zénith
When it comes to design and modernity, the Zénith and its architecture have what it takes to impress, wouldn't you say? Keep an eye on what's on: one of the numerous events is...
Saint-Étienne
Musée des Verts
from8 €
Musée des Verts
So who's the best? Why, the greens of course! This is the refrain that every Saint-Étienne supporter worth their salt has in their head, and to relive the legendary club's epic...
Saint-Étienne
Stade Geoffroy Guichard
Stade Geoffroy Guichard
"Who's the best? The greens of course !" What, you've never heard of the famous Cauldron? Whether you're a supporter or not you can't fail to be swept up by the internationally...
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Le tram et la Grand'Rue
Le tram et la Grand'Rue
The tram is a journey within a journey. The chance to take your time and rest those weary feet. Get out your camera and turn on burst mode, there are "people" on the balconies...
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Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole
What do the MoMa in New York, the Peggy-Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Villa Medicis in Rome have in common? The MAMC has lent works to all of them.
Saint-Priest-en-Jarez
Pulsations artwork Carnot
Pulsations artwork Carnot
Pulsations is a sound installation in the heart of a tree. Spectators can hear it and feel it physically when they are in contact with the trunk of the tree.
Saint-Étienne
Animali Domesticki - Jean-Sébastien Poncet
Animali Domesticki - Jean-Sébastien Poncet
The Animali Domesticki were originally a collection of six little wooden animals made up of elementary shapes, created by designer Jean-Sébastien Poncet
Saint-Étienne
Test Benches - ORRI
Test Benches - ORRI
Ah but in Saint-Étienne, benches are not just for sitting on. The Bancs d’Essai (Test Benches) scheme offers more curious passers-by the chance to take part in a life-size...
Saint-Étienne
Place Jacquard
Place JacquardSaint-Étienne
Maison de l'emploi
Maison de l'emploi
A place that is home to 17 different bodies working with the public in the field of employment, training, career guidance and business creations - that's the Maison de...
Saint-Étienne
Joseph Sanguedolce Park (Mining Museum)
Joseph Sanguedolce Park (Mining Museum)
If you think mining is something to do with big data, it is time to have a day out at the Puits Couriot. Before it was here that miners went underground to dig coal.
Saint-Étienne
Couriot Musée de la mine
from6.7 €
Couriot Musée de la mine
If you think mining is something to do with big data, it is time to have a day out at the Puits Couriot. Before it was here that miners went underground to dig coal.
Saint-Étienne
Explora - Fabrique de curiosités
Explora - Fabrique de curiosités
Interested in a Do-It-Yourself science experience? Head for Explora. No boring science lessons here, just experiments for budding scientists of all ages: observe, think of...
Saint-Étienne
Châteaucreux station
Châteaucreux station
Beautiful, isn't it, our Châteaucreux station? Who would have thought that this old industrial district would one day be transformed into an ultra-modern business quarter?!
Saint-Étienne
Pulsations artwork Châteaucreux
Pulsations artwork Châteaucreux
Pulsations is a sound installation in the heart of a tree. Spectators can hear it and feel it physically when they are in contact with the trunk of the tree.
Saint-Étienne
The multi-coloured tree by Philippe Million
The multi-coloured tree by Philippe Million
Artist Philippe Million's multi-coloured tree stands proud on the forecourt of the Châteaucreux train station. Its metallic trunk stretches, as though reaching for the sun, out...
Saint-Étienne
Blue horses by Assan Smati
Blue horses by Assan Smati
Born in Saint-Chamond, the artist Assan Smati lives and works in both Berlin and Saint-Etienne. He creates figurative art that resurrects ancient symbols.
Saint-Étienne
François Bauchet stool seats
François Bauchet stool seats
On the forecourt of the Châteaucreux station, you will also find a strange cast-iron forest of city bollards! This installation, named "Tempo" by its designer, looks like a...
Saint-Étienne
Îlot Grüner
Îlot Grüner
An administrative building designed as an exceptional architectural piece, now there's a good idea, one transformed in a stroke of genius by Manuelle Gautrand. Proof (if any...
Saint-Étienne
Centre international de séjour Wogenscky
Centre international de séjour Wogenscky
And you thought than "unusual house" meant tree house? Well, here's the proof that that is not necessarily the case: the CIS, a building classified as 20th century heritage. An...
Saint-Étienne
La montée du Crêt de Roc
La montée du Crêt de Roc
Taking the steps up to Crêt du Roc takes you high above the city for a panoramic view of the western side of Saint-Étienne.
Saint-Étienne
Manufrance et le centre de congrès
Manufrance et le centre de congrès
It's striking, isn't it the contrast between a classic 19th façade and such a High Tech interior? What we have here is a conversion of an iconic industrial site dear to the...
Saint-Étienne
La Soucoupe - Centre de sciences
6 €
La Soucoupe - Centre de sciences
But what exactly is hidden inside this flying sauce, you might ask. La Rotonde is a laboratory for ideas and experiments in the scientific field.
Saint-Étienne
Parcours Street Art C215
Parcours Street Art C215Saint-Étienne
Les Ateliers Weiss: an iconic chocolate factory in Saint-Etienne
Les Ateliers Weiss: an iconic chocolate factory in Saint-Etienne
Pretty much everyone likes chocolate. The Haut Chocolat® of Saint-Etienne can be enjoyed of course, but also visited. The Ateliers Weiss have been making these sweet delights...
Saint-Étienne
Ca se mange sans fin - Fresque Ella et Pitr
Ca se mange sans fin - Fresque Ella et Pitr
How about we take a step off the beaten track when it comes to murals? No more gardens or trompe l’œil farms. In Sainté (Saint-Étienne to you), we have Ella and Pitr's giants....
Saint-Étienne
Site Tréfilerie
Site TréfilerieSaint-Étienne
La Brasserie Stéphanoise
La Brasserie Stéphanoise
Can you imagine, over half a century without any real beer? Impossible. And yet it's what happened in Saint-Étienne, after the Mosser brewery closed down in the 60s.
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Updated on 22 July 2025 at 17:54
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