Practical information

Opening hours

From May 26^thto September 28^th 2025

10:00 am - 1:15 pm and 2pm - 6pm

Open every day

From September 29^th 2025 to the end of May 2026

10:30 am - 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Tuesday to Sunday

Info : Last entry 45 min before closing time.

Annual closures : January 1^st, Easter Monday, May 1^st and December 25^th.

Prices

The ticket gives you access to the entire monument.

Ticket office

Individual ticket	7€
Special prices
With an SNCF Intercités ticket to Bordeaux (less than 5 days old) With an SNCF - TGV Inoui ticket (valid for less than 5 days) With Les Amis du Louvre guest card With the City Pass Bordeaux Métropole card With Gîtes de France Privilege Pass partners (on presentation of rental key ring) On presentation of the Guide du Routard Bordelais Landes Lot-et-Garonne 2024-2025	5,50 €
SNCF - frequent traveller (on presentation of membership card)	4€
Twin ticket for Abbaye de La Sauve-Majeure + Château ducal de Cadillac	11€
With Gîtes de France Privilege Pass partners (on presentation of rental key ring) On presentation of the Guide du Routard Bordelais Landes Lot-et-Garonne 2024-2025	9€
Twin ticket for La Sauve-Majeure Abbey + Maison des vins de l'Entre-deux-Mers (visit + wine tasting)	11€
Free admission
Under 18 years old 18-25 years (residents of European Union countries and regular non-European residents in France) Visitors with disabilities and their care partners Visitors who are unemployed (upon presentation of a certificate of less than 6 months validity) Education pass (valid for the duration of the pass) With La Locale Entre-deux-Mers card (free for the holder if accompanied by a person paying the individual fare) Bordeaux Ambassadeur cardholders (if accompanied by 2 people paying the individual rate) The first Sunday in November, December, January, February and March

Visitors eligible for free admission

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Group rates From 20 paying adults Any person accompanied by a tourism professional, with no minimum number of visitors
Self-guided or guided tour for groups of adults	5,50€
Twin ticket abbey + ducal castle of Cadillac	9€
Twin ticket abbey + Maison des vins de l'Entre-deux-Mers	9€
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Payment method

Cash
Credit card (except American express)
Check
Vacation voucher (ANCV)
Culture check (entrance ticket and products in the shop)
Lire check (on products in the shop)

Access and transport

La Sauve-Majeure Abbey

14, rue de l'abbaye
33670 La Sauve

How to get there

By car

Bordeaux's beltway, D936 towards Bergerac, D671 towards Créon and Sauveterre-de-Guyenne

By bike

Via the Roger Lapébie cycle path (Bordeaux <-> Sauveterre-de-Guyenne)
Via three cycle routes : the Scandibérique, the Tour of Gironde by bike, and the canal des 2 mers.

By bus

With Transgironde line 473 (Bordeaux-Stalingrad <-> Sauveterre, via Targon), stop at "Bourg" in La Sauve

Services and conditions of visit

Recommended length of visit : 1 hour
Visit document (available in French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese) and cultural programme leaflet
Interpretation panels
Modernised lapidary area
Car park along the abbey wall and Place St Jean
Bookshop
Toilets
Dogs allowed, kept on a lead
Access to the top of the tower requires good health
Smoking banned throughout the site, both inside and outside the monument. Pursuant to decree no. 2025-582 of June 27^th, 2025 on smoke-free areas, outdoor public places where children and teenagers may be present or exposed, notably public parks and gardens, become smoke-free areas.

Disabled access

Auditory: we provide labels and panels included in the lapidary museum, as well as a visitor's booklet.
Visual: we provide audio mediation tools (podcasts available in Visit the abbey independently)

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Vigipirate plan

To ensure the safety of visitors, the monument applies the preventive measures decided by the government for public administrations. To find out more

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