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Videoguide
Discover the history of Provins thanks to the videoguide.
The videoguide, an easy-to-use and ingenious tool, equipped with GPS, will accompany you in the streets and monuments of the medieval town and its surroundings, to explore unimaginable treasures.
Pratical info:
Location all year long at the Tourist Office during working hours and at the Tourist Office of Beton-Bazoches.
Prices: adults 13 € - children 9 € (5-12 years old).
To find out more, click here
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new year's medieval banquet in the taverne des oubliées
In one of the largest lower room of Provins, from the 12th century, included in France's National Inventory of Historical Monuments, you will find a real medieval banquet.
You will eat medieval specialities and drink some "hypocras", a medieval wine.
Between each meal, storytellers, troubadours, performers, fire spitters, comedians, dancers, jesters, magicians take you in a festive mood!
Practical info:
Saturday 31 December at 9 p.m.
14 rue Saint Thibault.
Information, Provins Tourist Office: 33 (0) 1 64 60 26 26.
Contact us by mail, click here
Prices: 75 € per person.
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Contact the Tourist Office to know all the places who organize
New Year's party and dinners.
33 (0) 1 64 60 26 26.
By mail, click here
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 | the provins rose garden
New: garden of "simples", medieval plants with medicinal virtues .
At feet of monuments, you will find a quiet and charming place: a rose garden covering 3,5 hectares. In a bucolic atmosphere, you will learn about the story of this emblematic flower, its colors, shapes, scents, and its virtues.
You will know everything there is about old roses - Rosa Gallica (roses of Provins), Rosa Damascena, Rosa Alba, Rosa Centifolia, hybrid tea roses - and modern roses which flower until autumn.
Guied tour on request.
Wheelchair access.
Tearoom with terrace, shop and exhibition room.
Practical info:
The Provins Rose Garden is open from 2 April to 24 December 2011.
From 1 to 24 December: week-end from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
11 rue des Prés.
Prices: Free entrance up to 24 December 2011.
Annual ticket 16,50 €.
To find out more, click here
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|  | educational farm of Saint-Hilliers
A guided tour with a specialist to discover farm animals in a typically Brie setting, at 7 km far away from Provins: poultry, chicks, cows, horses, sheeps, goats, donkeys, pigs, rabbits, etc.
You can assist the birth of a small chick, collect eggs in the henhouse, milk one goat, give to eat and stroke animals.
Practical info:
Length: 2 hours.
From 1st Novembre to 31st March: Saturday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., weather permitting - Week: on booking - Closed on Sunday.
From 1st April to 31st October: Saturday and Sunday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., weather permitting - Week: on booking.
Information: Tel. 33 (0) 1 64 00 24 61 - Fax: 33 (0) 1 64 60 15 48. Hameau de Savigny, 77160 Saint Hilliers.
Email:
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Price: 7,50 € |
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|  | the Farm de la Mercy in Chenoise
It is a farm in service at only 10 km far away from Provins.
You can discover farmer's occupations give to eat and stroke animals: rabbits, sheeps, chicks, cows, pigs and all sort of palmipeds.
Numerous workshops complete the visit like how to prepare bread or how to shear a sheep, etc.
Practical info:
Length: 2 hours or all day long.
Guided tour on booking (from 15 persons), except in winter.
Information:
Route de la Croix, D12 - 77160 Chenoise.
Tel./Fax: 33 (0) 1 64 00 93 10.
Email:
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Prices: Guided tour only: 5,80 €.
Guided tour + 1 workshop + drive on barouche: 8,90 €
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christmas in provins
A great Xmas weekend with activities for all!
A medieval market on the Place du Châtel to the Place Saint-Quiriace, an Animated crib in the choir of Saint-Quiriace church, an exhibition of cribs of the world, an artisanal market and a skating rink.
Practical info:
Friday 9, Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 December 2011.
Prices: Free entrance except for the skating rink.
Information, Provins Tourist Office: 33 (0) 1 64 60 26 26.
Contact us by mail, click here
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