Taizé

Travel to Taizé individually

webadmin — 2025-05-27T12:00:00Z

There are a number of different ways to reach Taizé from the UK by public transport:

Groups travelling to Taizé open for individuals to join

19th-27th July 2025, travelling by Coach from Huddersfield, could pick up enroute.
Contact: Bishop Smitha Prasadam

Coach

Usually the least expensive London to Taizé journey is to travel to Chalon-sur-Saône by coach. This usually involves an overnight journey. There are various services: https://www.blablacar.co.uk/, https://global.flixbus.com/, https://uk.megabus.com/ etc. (You may need to change in Lille or Paris).
From Chalon take the local bus to Taizé. See timetable on the page By train and local bus, which can be checked for summer variations, etc. by looking at the LR701 service on this page: https://www.viamobigo.fr/en/mobigo-...

Train

The most comfortable way to travel from London to Taizé is by Eurostar train from St Pancras. If the tickets are booked well in advance the price may not be too high, especially outside of the summer period. (Tip: Try booking tickets from London to Mâcon-Loché TGV all in one go on the SNCF site (English): https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en/ )
The journey is:
1) Eurostar from St Pancras to Paris (arrive at “Gare du Nord”) ( 2¼ hours)
2) Cross Paris (by taxi or RER-metro line D) to the station “Gare de Lyon” ( 30 mins)
3) Paris (Gare de Lyon) to Mâcon-Loché (by TGV high-speed train) ( 1¾ hours)
4) Bus from Mâcon-Loché to Taizé (see timetable at the foot of the page By train and local bus), or see timetable for the service LR701 at https://www.viamobigo.fr/en/mobigo-...

Coach, then train

It is possible to travel by coach from many points in the UK directly to Paris. From there one can continue by train. There are various coach drop-off points in Paris, however, and Paris-Bercy is the most convenient one for travelling onwards to Taizé by train.

By train and local bus

Cristian, webadmin — 2025-05-03T12:30:00Z

If you are travelling from Paris, choose Mâcon-Loché TGV as your destination station (this is the nearest station to Taizé).
Note: Ticket prices on the fast (TGV) train vary a lot, depending on how far in advance they are bought. Slower trains which run from Paris-Bercy or Paris-Austerlitz to Mâcon-Ville will often be less expensive if you have left it late to book your ticket.

If you are travelling from Lyon, choose either Mâcon-Ville or Mâcon-Loché TGV as your destination station.

If you are travelling from Geneva, choose either Mâcon-Ville or Mâcon-Loché TGV (via Lyon Part-Dieu or Bourg-en-Bresse) as your destination station.

If you are travelling from Strasbourg, choose Chalon-sur-Saône as your destination station. (N.B. There are also some connections to Mâcon-Ville or Mâcon-Loché TGV via Paris.)

From Mâcon-Ville, Mâcon-Loché TGV and Chalon-sur-Saône stations there is a connecting bus to Taizé (see pdf timetable below). We suggest that you buy the ticket on the bus (on internet sites it is sometimes more expensive).
Not all trains are followed by a bus connection to Taizé (see the timetable below). If there is no bus, you will need to take a taxi or minbus, which is much more expensive than the bus. See Taxis and buses for hire locally.
You can find train times and buy tickets online on various sites. Many journeys are available as electronic tickets. Note that ticket prices are substantially lower if you buy them well in advance.
Useful sites and links:
The SNCF site (English) or (French).
Deutsche Bahn international timetable (Deutsch) (English)
https://www.viamobigo.fr/en/mobigo-..., for more information on the LR701 bus line, which connects the train stations to Taizé.

Changing trains in Paris

See this useful page
and for going from Gare du Nord to Gare de Lyon, this video

From the UK

See Travel to Taizé individually

Timetable of connecting buses to Taizé:


2024.09.02 > 2025.07.04


2025.07.05 > 2025.08.31

Travelling by carpooling

Benoît — 2024-11-03T15:32:00Z

Whether you're coming with your own car or you would like to join someone else's car, one option is to carpool to Taizé.

You can now post your journey to get more passengers or find one to join on a carpooling website, in particular this one. There are other carpooling platforms that you can also use, but this one is currently the most developed in Western Europe.

This initiative is part of our efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the international meetings in Taizé.

Nearest airports

webadmin — 2023-06-03T14:00:00Z

How to travel between airports and train stations for Taizé.
For trains to Taizé see the By train page.

Paris CDG – Paris Orly

Extensive information on public transport services to/from between the Paris and the centre of Paris is given on these pages:
Charles-de-Gaulle Airport
Orly Airport

Lyon Saint-Exupéry

See
https://www.lyonaeroports.com/en/ac... for various options.

Coach/car transfer to Taizé

Use car-sharing to travel to Mâcon, and take the bus from there.
« Voyages Clunysois » offers taxi/coach transfers between Lyon Airport and Taizé: https://bustour.fr/reservations-tra...

Geneva

www.gva.ch
There are frequent trains and buses from the airport to the city-centre railway station. Approximate travel time: 7 minutes (train), 25 minutes (bus).

Taxis and buses for hire locally

webadmin — 2008-03-03T23:00:00Z

Taxis

If you take a train to Mâcon-Loché that does not have a bus connection to Taizé, taxis can be hired at the station. It is approximately half an hour's drive to Taizé. Reckon with a fare of around 90 € (euros).

Buses

To hire a bus to bring your group to Taizé from the station or from one of the airports, Voyages Clunysois have buses with from 18 to 57 seats.

Contact :
Voyages Clunysois
10 route de la Roseraie
71250 Cluny, France.
devis voyages-clunysois.fr
Fax : +33 3 85 59 03 60
Tél. : +33 3 85 59 05 60
https://bustour.fr/

By road

webadmin — 2003-11-25T13:29:21Z

Taizé - GPS coordinates: Lat/Lon: N46.51355 E4.67708 UTM: 31T 628650 5152490

Postal address: Communauté de Taizé, 6 rue des Pendaines, 71250 TAIZÉ, France.

NB : there are several Taizé's in France! If you search for the address in your GPS, it's very important to specify: 71250 Taizé

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