Practical information

Opening hours

From 20 May to 22 September

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

Open every day

From 24 September to the end of May 2025

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)	5,50 €
SNCF - frequent traveller (on presentation of membership card)	4€
Twin ticket for Abbaye de La Sauve-Majeure + Château ducal de Cadillac	11 €
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)

By bus

With Transgironde line 403 (Bordeaux-Stalingrad <-> Sauveterre, via Targon), Bourg de La Sauve stop

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 (not accessible to people with reduced mobility)
Dogs allowed, kept on a lead

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

Niveau : Urgence attentat du plan Vigipirate

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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