The Familistère of Guise

Take advantage of a TER cultural discount of €3, on presentation of your TER ticket at the Familistère de Guise reception desk. This means your admission is €7 instead of €10 for a self-guided tour or €9 instead of €12 for a guided tour.

How can you benefit?
All you have to do is present your TER ticket of the day to the TER partner. For tickets loaded onto a Pass Pass card, you will need to show proof of purchase.

In the middle of the 19th century, Jean-Baptiste André Godin, a former factory worker, built a housing estate with 2,000 inhabitants in Guise (Aisne), close to his cast-iron stove factory: Le Familistère.
This "social palace" is one of the most ambitious social experiments in the industrialised world. Le Familistère is a realised utopia that operated until 1968 as a cooperative association of capital and labour. The members of the association collectively owned the Familistère and its factory.