The Palais des Congrès de Perpignan can host congresses, conventions, seminars, general meetings, product launches, trade shows, gala dinners and shows, from a meeting of 20 people to a plenary of 1,045 seats or a buffet for 1,200. The building offers more than 10,000 square meters over seven levels at Place Armand Lanoux, in the tree-lined Bir-Hakeim park in the center of Perpignan. It is run by Perpignan Congrès Expo, which also manages the city's exhibition park and the Église des Dominicains.
Seminars and company events
The building covers every stage of a congress: two auditoriums for plenaries, a conference floor, around fifteen meeting rooms for parallel sessions, exhibition halls for stands and breaks, and a large hall for meals. All meeting rooms have an interactive board with built-in PC and sound, a lectern or stage with microphone, and full video and sound systems. Professional stand equipment can be rented for the exhibition areas, which have high-speed internet.
For team building, the building also has a dance studio of 185 square meters and a martial arts dojo of 190 square meters, used for group activities and challenges.
Weddings and receptions
The rooftop is offered for gala evenings, weddings, conferences and business meals. The Église des Dominicains, a listed 13th and 14th-century church near the Palais and run by the same operator, is offered for gala evenings.
Rooms and capacities
The Charles Trenet auditorium seats 1,045: 739 in the stalls and 306 on the balcony, including 4 places for wheelchair users. It has an 80 square meter stage, a technical control room and 11 dressing rooms, with direct access to the exhibition halls, the main hall and the bar and coffee areas.
The Jean-Claude Rolland auditorium on the first floor, renovated in 2012, seats 300, including 7 places for wheelchair users. Meeting rooms, a coffee break area and an exhibition hall sit on the same floor.
The Espace Grenat covers 1,080 square meters and takes up to 1,200 guests for a buffet. It is used for congresses, trade shows, sports galas, shows and gala dinners.
The rooftop on the seventh floor pairs a Mediterranean garden terrace of 450 square meters with an indoor room of 300 square meters and takes up to 340 guests, with a view over the Bir-Hakeim park and the Canigou mountain.
The Espace Conférence on the fourth floor covers 380 square meters of bright, modular space for 1 to 200 people, with a mobile touchscreen with sound and high-speed internet. It suits business breakfasts and general meetings.
The commission rooms, spread over four floors with a VIP lounge, each have their own color scheme (red, blue, green, vintage) and take 20 to 200 people.
Exhibition areas total about 1,220 square meters: Halls 1, 2 and 3 on the ground floor (600 square meters), the reception hall (300), the Hall Martin Vivès (100) and the Espace Maillol in the basement (220), which holds the luggage room and cloakroom.
Catering
Meals on site can be requested with the booking. The operator does not name its caterers on its site, so ask which partners serve the Espace Grenat and the rooftop.
Getting there
The Palais des Congrès is at Place Armand Lanoux, 66000 Perpignan, in the city center. Perpignan-Rivesaltes airport is 6.2 km from the center, and Perpignan station is served by high-speed TGV trains. The Mediterranean is about 10 minutes away, the Pyrenees 20 minutes and the Spanish border 30 minutes.
