The Abbaye de Royaumont hosts seminars, study days, training courses, conventions and company evenings for 10 to 600 guests, with 53 bedrooms on site. The abbey, founded in 1228 by the young Louis IX, stands in a 7-hectare park at Asnières-sur-Oise, in the Val-d'Oise, 30 km north of Paris. It belongs to the Fondation Royaumont, which runs a dedicated seminars and events team.
Seminars and company events
Royaumont has 10 meeting rooms of 30 to 250 square meters, served by an elevator, with daylight and large windows onto the park or the cloister. They suit executive committees, study days, training and seminars. For general assemblies and conferences, the monumental halls can be set theater-style for up to 500 people. Equipment listed includes multimedia, sound, lighting control, acoustic treatment and very high-speed internet, with video conferencing, collaborative platforms and simultaneous interpretation on request.
The foundation sells its own content for company programs: creative workshops around music, dance, theater, nature and heritage, facilitation and well-being workshops with partner consultants, talks with Philosophie Magazine and Télérama, themed tours of the abbey, and concerts by young musicians and resident ensembles, including on the Cavaillé-Coll organ. A campus offer targets continuing education.
For evenings, the monks' kitchens and refectory, the lay brothers' refectory, the cloister and the medieval-style garden can host award ceremonies, thank-you dinners or the closing night of a seminar, with or without set design. Partners can supply table settings, decoration, flowers, hosts, entertainers, DJs and fireworks.
Weddings and receptions
Royaumont stopped hosting weddings on January 1, 2025. Private receptions should be checked with the events team.
Rooms and capacities
The abbey offers 10 meeting rooms and 5 large reception halls with high vaulted ceilings, for groups of 10 to 600 people. The monks' refectory, with two naves and stained-glass windows, has served as a concert hall since 1936, when the Cavaillé-Coll organ was installed. The lay brothers' refectory is one of the most spacious rooms of the abbey, with three rib-vaulted bays. The former latrines building now holds a lounge, a bar and tea room and a reception room, with seminar spaces upstairs. Capacities per room are given on request.
Accommodation
The abbey has 53 bedrooms set in the former monastic cells, with views over the gardens or the cloister. Partner hotels nearby add capacity for larger groups.
Catering
Catering is prepared on site by the abbey's chef and brigade, in a new kitchen with large windows. Formats include buffets, plated meals, country lunches, cocktail dinners, dinners and gala evenings, with dishes linked to the abbey's kitchen garden. Private dining rooms are available for seminar groups, as well as a lounge and a bar terrace.
History and setting
Founded in 1228 by Louis IX and his mother Blanche of Castile, Royaumont is the largest Cistercian abbey in the Île-de-France region and has been a listed historic monument since 1927. After the Revolution it became a textile mill, then a convent, a war hospital and a country house. Henry Goüin opened it to artists and thinkers, and the Fondation Royaumont, recognized as a public-interest foundation in 1964, now runs it as a cultural center. The latest restoration was completed in November 2020. The park includes the cloister garden, the garden of nine squares and the kitchen garden, next to the ruins of the abbey church.
Getting there
Royaumont is 5 km from Viarmes station on line H from Paris Gare du Nord. Transfers by car with driver, shuttle or taxi can be arranged from the station. By road, it lies off the Francilienne ring road, between Cergy-Pontoise and Chantilly, and is reachable from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
