Discover the Fougères area, its architectural and religious heritage, its forests and gardens, as well as the numerous outdoor activities which will allow you to escape with your family or with your friends.

 

You could follow the steps of guide-speakers and taste regional products, gastronomy in hostels or in castle, and it will allow you to be part of this stimulating and authentic country.

 

 

  Our mission: welcome, inform, make discovering, accompagny...

 

 Located in the upper town, the Fougères area Tourist Office is an unincorporated association (Association Law of 1901), founded in 1913, and which is a member of the National, Regional and Departmental Federations of Tourist Offices. 

 

 The Tourist Office has received from the Urban District Community, a "Délégation de Services Publics" (all the contracts by which a moral person of public law entrust the management of public services of which it has the responsability to a public or private delegation) for its welcome, information and promotion missions.  

                        

 With its 3 stars classification system, it welcomes 35.000 visitors per year.

 4 multilingual receptionists will be listening to you so as to make discover the region all year long. 

 The Tourist Office team is strengthened during the summer season in order to satisfy you.

  If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask us...We are here to inform you with a broad smile.

 

The Tourist Office which is located at 2, rue Nationale is opened:                 *from November to Easter          Monday: 2pm to 6pm          Tuesday to Saturday: 10am to 12.30am & 2pm to 6pm                                                                                                                             *from Easter to October          Monday to Saturday: 9.30am to 12.30am & 2pm to 6pm                *from mid-June to mid-September:          Monday to Saturday: 9.30am to 6pm          Sunday: 2pm to 6pm               *July and August:         Monday to Saturday: 9am to 7pm         Sundays and public holidays: 10am to 12am & 2pm to 6pm.

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

The Tourist Office Website

The website is regularly updated. If you want to send us some photos about Fougères, do not hesitate to write to us: ot.fougeres@wanadoo.fr

For the section "Events", if you want to propose an entertainment for Fougères and the surroundings, you can send on a program

with a visual display unit at the same address.

 

 

 

Customers Service Quality Survey

In order to offer a service and an efficient welcome to the customers which frequent the tourist office or contact us, we commit ourselves since 2006 to respect the Service Quality Survey proposed by the Regional Federation of Tourist Offices in Brittany.

 

Our quality policy: improve the welcome and information for visitors.

Our quality objectives are well-defined:

 

Thus, the staff of the Tourist Office must:

-be available and pay attention to each request

-welcome warmly and courteously

-inform precisely and completely about the services proposed in the region or about local touristic activities

-have impeccable work clothes and an irreproachable behaviour

-permanently improve the reception service by the means of quality guides which are set up

 

 

 

Information and services available

-a local literature: plan, practical guide (accommodation, catering, leisure, shops, events...), leisure guide available in French and English

-an organized tour guide available in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Japonese 

and

-a departmental, regional and national literature

-information about sport, cultural associations...

-local weather forecasts for several days

-local and departmental transports

-events

-the sale of different articles (posters, books, souvenir medal, hiking and road cards, souvenirs...)

 

 

Tourism and Handicap

The Tourist Office launched a procedure of Handicap Tourism Labellisation.  

As the Tourist Office is always concerned by improving the services offered, it counts on quality of reception for the disabled putting at their disposal different equipments and supports: 

 

-a magnetic sound amplifier at the disposal of the partially deaf

 

-an approach ramp and equipments adapted to people with reduced mobility

 

-an adapted literature, in large print and in braille

 

-a staff training so as to better welcome people who have a handicap 

 

Thus, following this measure, you will find below adapted documents:

 

-Town Map: download here the recto

                              download here the verso

 

-Leisure Guide: download here

 

 

-Practical Guide: download here

 

The adresses mentioned in this guide were not all visited by the Tourist Office team and they don't all possess a Tourism Handicap Label.

Information is conveyed according to the owner statements.

We recommend you to contact each entity, so as to warn of your arrival and allow them to reserve a reception of quality. 

 

 

> The access:

 

 

    A dapted public parking  (in front of the Tourist Office) 
   Entrance door with a bell

 

 

 

> The reception:

  Clear hall with rest seats and children spaces 

  Internet access and wifi available


 Information about accessibility of touristic sites in the Fougères area
 Adapted identification and reception banners

 

 

 

> An adapted counter for the disabled:

   

  Adapted identification

 

 
  
 Magnetic sound amplifier 

 Numerical dictaphone
 Recording of the town visit on mp3 
 Touristic brochure in braille and large print 

 

 

> Other fittings:

  Elevator

 Visual alarm 
 Toilets (ground floor)