Cours, enseignement et travail à pied — un centre pour apprendre ou faire progresser un cheval.
Thuir Équitation is a riding centre near Perpignan. It offers riding lessons for adults and children and a pony club for young riders. The centre provides boarding for owners' horses in boxes or on collective or private paddocks. It also organises equestrian activities and competitions and sells hay.
Horse Compagnie Association is an association working with horses and ponies. It offers an educational approach to the equine world. Activities include rides, pony and horse rental, and themed courses. The association also offers riding work, including bareback and jumping.
Equisud is a family riding centre in Les Angles in the Pyrénées-Orientales, operating since 2015. It runs guided riding treks in the high mountains, including one-week all-inclusive packages. It also offers riding lessons for children and adults, from initiation to rider level. The centre keeps 34 horses, mainly Appaloosa and Pinto, which are raised outdoors and prepared for trekking.
Les Crinières Blondes is a riding centre based at the Matemale lake on the Capcir plateau. It offers guided horse rides for all levels, from short family outings in the forest to longer excursions off the marked trails. Pony rides are available for younger children, and riding lessons are offered by reservation. The horses are described as suited to trail riding, and the centre is open daily during the summer season.
Écurie Sant Jordi is a riding school and stable in Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines, in the Pyrénées-Orientales. It offers riding lessons for all ages and levels, as well as horse boarding with paddocks and care. It also organises riding walks and excursions on local trails and runs courses and workshops for riders. The site also mentions an adapted centre for people with disabilities.
La Colonie is an equestrian centre that offers riding lessons for all levels and ages in a family atmosphere. The club keeps its horses and ponies at pasture and offers horse boarding, including individual paddocks. Riders can take part in guided hacks, and the club competes in show jumping, hunter and sometimes dressage, including departmental and regional finals. The club is open all year round.
Le Cheval Andalou is an equestrian tourism centre near Saint-Cyprien, close to Perpignan. It offers riding lessons, individual and group, for beginners and experienced riders from age 6. The centre organises rides on horseback and pony rides, including multi-day rides of 1 to 4 days along the coast and in the mountains. It also offers horse boarding.
Randonnées EQUITable is a horse-riding holiday business in the Occitanie region near Toulouse. It organises mounted and driven treks on its own horses, including trips across the region. It offers horse pension at pasture with shelter, and carriage driving lessons and outings. It also offers equine-assisted therapy and horse-mediated support for people.
Alegria Relation de Complicité is an equestrian business in Caumont, Ariège, near Saint-Girons. It offers boarding for horses and ponies in a Mérens breeding setting, with access to installations and riding trails. It also runs training in ethological horsemanship, including themed courses, long-term training and online training. The business additionally offers horses for sale and equicoaching services.
Equi Nosce is a training and research centre in Mirepoix, Ariège, focused on horse-human partnership. It offers personalised riding courses and stages using the client's own horse or a school horse. It also provides horse boarding with optional work in ethological riding, with access to paddocks and shelters. It runs horse coaching sessions for individuals and companies, using the horse as a partner for personal development.
Pyren-Equus is the Ferme d'en Garcie in Porté-Puymorens in the Pyrenees, run by Nathalie Komaroff. The farm breeds Merens horses. It offers riding trekks, transhumance and rides in the Cerdagne. It also offers carriage driving and riding instruction.
Centre Équestre Font-Romeu is a riding centre in the Pyrenees offering lessons, training sessions and passages de galops for riders from baby pony level to confirmed riders. It runs a riding club and poney-club, along with a sport-études section for competition riding. The centre also offers horse boarding with spacious boxes, daily turnout and mountain feed. Its facilities include 50 boxes, a covered arena, and jumping and dressage areas.
L'équido offers classical dressage teaching in the tradition of classical riding. It also offers archery and horseback archery. Courses and private or group lessons are provided at the Domaine, or at the client's own location or premises. The business serves both private individuals and professionals.
Les Ecuries du Basthel is an equestrian business in the Ariège department, about 30 to 40 minutes from Toulouse. It offers boarding (pensions) for horses in group paddocks with shelters, and riding lessons for all levels, given either at the yard or at the client's own stable. It also provides work and breaking-in of young horses, locomotor assessments and follow-up, and equine naturopathy consultations.
Le Poney Bleu is a riding centre and pony club in Montgay, near Nailloux, about 20 minutes from Toulouse. It offers collective and private riding lessons, starting from age 2, across classical and ethological riding. Riding holidays, rides and courses are also offered. Ponies and horses are kept at pasture in groups, and a boarding formula ('au pair') includes lessons.
The centre runs a riding school for riders of all levels, from beginners to competitors, on horses and ponies from age 5. It offers individual and group lessons, adult lessons, summer riding holidays and club show outings. The attached Ecurie Gilles Queral provides full and part boarding for horses and ponies, and competition preparation and season management. It also sells and rents horses in all disciplines.
The Ferme équestre de Rouffiac-des-Corbières is a horse farm located under the Peyrepertuse castle. It offers guided rides for beginners and experienced riders, from short outings to multi-day rides with overnight stays. Riding instruction is available for those who want to start or improve their riding. The farm also provides livery (pension) for horses, and its own horses live in a herd on large pastures.
Cheval Malepère is a riding club on the Malepère massif between Carcassonne and Limoux in France. It offers riding lessons and rides for beginners and recreational riders, including horses and ponies. The club also provides outdoor pasture boarding for horses owned by members. The website lists lessons, outings and boarding rates for the current season.
Equitêt Rando is a riding centre near Perpignan that offers guided horse rides on the paths along the Têt river, in half-day, full-day and weekend formats. It also offers riding lessons for beginners and experienced riders, including preparation for the classical 7 galops and pleine nature exams. The centre keeps a small string of horses, including Comtois draft horses, an Appaloosa and a Spanish purebred. Groups are kept small.
The Ferme équestre du causse is an equestrian centre in the Haute vallée de l'Aude, near Granès. It offers riding lessons for all levels, from beginners to advanced riders and children. It also runs guided rides from one hour to several days, plus a self-guided week-long riding option. The centre provides full, personalised horse boarding with paddock, pre and stable options.
Farandole Equestre is an equestrian business in Ariège, France, offering horse rides of one hour or a full day suited to all riding levels. The yard also provides pasture boarding on about 10 hectares of natural meadows, with horses kept in small herds. It offers ethological riding lessons, trail outings and horse work in a natural, gentle approach. The horses include Icelandic ponies with five gaits, which experienced riders can try from level galop 2.
Les Écuries d'Indiana is a small family equestrian centre located in Montesquieu-Volvestre on more than 20 hectares. It offers riding lessons for all levels from age 3, taught by two qualified instructors. It also runs horse boarding, with pasture boarding and work access, and provides facilities including arenas, a paddock area and a galloping track.
Les Ecuries du Cazalas is a riding centre in Les Pujols, Ariège. It offers individual and group riding lessons and competition preparation. It also provides horse boarding in paddock, box or pasture, with full feeding and rug management included. The yard offers horse training (valorisation) and rides, hikes and pony baptisms.
EquiTerre offers ethological horsemanship centred on communication and trust between rider and horse. The business runs workshops, courses and summer camps for children and adults. It also provides education and training for young horses and foals, plus rehabilitation for horses. The horses live in a herd and are kept in natural, free-moving conditions.
