Activities at La Chartreuse du Val St. Esprit or nearby

• A magnificent 4 hectare wooded park

• 2 tennis courts

• 1 fitness room

• 2 areas suitable for helicopter landings

Seminars & Receptions

The serenity of the surroundings, allied to the convenience of the modern communication equipment, makes the seminar rooms an agreeable and effective setting for work, training and conferences.

The 7 meeting rooms, with a capacity from 10 to 100 people, are of course, completely equipped, on request, with:
• screen,
• back projector,
• video projector – additional hire charge,
• chart pad,
• slide carrousel,
• television and video recorder,
• internet connexion.

A unique location for your most refined receptions

La Chartreuse du Val St-Esprit also has available 4 private rooms for 20 to 200 covers.

Nearby Activities

• Skiing
Beginners and confirmed skiers, discover the artificial slope at
Loisinord, the first of this type in France: downhill and slalom on
a mat 35 m wide and 300 m high are on the programme!!

• Golf
With an area of 90 ha, Golf d`Arras offers you an original
course: 9 marsh holes, 9 hill holes.
A relatively technical par 72 18 hole and a beginners par 31 9 hole,
all on undulating wooded land: in the direction of Golf de St-Omer.

• Olhain departmental park
Perched in the hills of Artois, this 400 ha natural area is
suitable for all tastes: golf course, 10 tennis courts, heated swimming pool, basket ball and volley ball courts, without forgetting the many children’s games.

• Croix en Ternois Car-Motor Bike Circuit
Great sensations to share!

Tourist Attractions

Use your stay at La Chartreuse du Val St-Esprit to take a few historic excursions, between the Pays d`Artois and the Audomarois:

• Gosnay and its charterhouses
A community of 1509 inhabitants located in the Pas-de-Calais, Gosnay has two charterhouses, which is particularly unusual. According to legend, they were built to silence the evil spirits!

• The Mont Ste-Marie Charterhouse
This convent of religious sisters was built in the XIVth century, at the request of Thierry d`Hérichon, bishop of Arras.

• The Bailiwick of Aire Sur-La-Lys
This former guardhouse in renaissance style was constructed in 1600. Today it contains the tourist office.

• Arras
This town is renowned worldwide for its two great squares, an architectural ensemble that is unique in Europe. Their style is uniform but not monotonous: 155 dwellings, dating from the XVII th to the XVIII the century, punctuate this ensemble of 17,000 m2 with their columns.

• The Château d`Olhain
Olhain comes to us from the early Middle Age as an authentic example of the “fortified castle of the plains of Northern Europe”. It was built about 1200 by the knight Hugues d`Olhain with the aim of defending the hamlet.

• The Belfry of Béthune
Isolated in the centre of the Grand-Place, the belfry was constructed in wood, then in sandstone. The 37 bells in the carillon sound out the usual airs for the local children.

• Notre-Dame de Lorette
Perched at a height of 165 m and located in the centre of an immense national cemetery, this monument has 2 parts, the Lantern Tour and the Chapel.

• Hôtel Sandelin Museum, St-Omer
Constructed under Louis XVI, l the Hôtel Sandelin provides the Beaux-Arts Museum with one of the most attractive settings in the Nord / Pas-de-Calais.

• The Fontinettes Boat Lift
This facility, unique in France, was created in 1887. In 20 minutes, it lifted fully loaded barges through a height of 13 m!