Improve your dressage, show jumping, and cross-country skills during our Summer Horseback Riding camp in France. An unforgettable camp in a magnificent equestrian center!

If you've studied French and want to improve it while practicing your favorite sport, enroll in this French summer camp near Lyon for one or two weeks! This is a fully supervised French immersion. Summer camps in France for teens! 

Book a summer at our Horseback Riding Academy in France 2025

Study abroad Mâcon France
Age from 13 to 17 years old
Language French
Dates July and August
Length 1 or 2 weeks
Fees from 1589 EUR
Overview

Summer Horseback Riding camps in France for teens

We offer all-inclusive residential pony camps for 7 or 14 days for teenagers during the summer holidays. Book the residential riding camp and travel to France next summer! Participants can select a sport to practice intensively during the French summer camp. A 30-hour-per-week sports program includes:

  • Technical workshops: personalized exercises for getting into the saddle, improving balance, controlling fast paces, and driving and controlling the horse.
  • Challenge workshops: walking, lunging, rides, acrobatics, equestrian games.
  • Obstacle course, cross country, and specific preparation exercises.
  • Competition workshops: passing a gallop if a previous level is reached (Federal license required).
  • For stays of more than 14 days, an outing to the Accro'bath park is organized followed by a swimming afternoon.

The Horseback Riding camp in Mâcon is dedicated to good horsemen/women minimum Galop 3 or BHS Stage 3 (UK equivalent from Galop 3)

2025 FRANCE HORSEBACK RIDING CAMP

Our summer sports camps in the Lyon area are organized in Mâcon in France. This campus is in a lush green park, 10 minutes from the city center. It offers excellent facilities: dormitories, sports fields, indoor and outdoor courts, water sports facilities nearby (the ones on the campus are used for the Swimming camp), tennis fields, a gymnasium, a leisure and activity room, a self-service restaurant, etc. The students can practice sports and educational activities in complete safety at the campus in Mâcon.

All our sports camps are developed and organized by our sports affiliate, SPORTS ELITE JEUNES. The sports and activities offered in Mâcon take place in world-class facilities used for training French national teams. Our coaches have years of experience running training and practice sessions. They are experienced and highly skilled. They have a Sports Coach Diploma in their specific field or work in school as sports coaches.

LANGUAGE DURING THE HORSEBACK RIDING SUMMER CAMP IN FRANCE

The majority of participants (90%) are French. Coaches and assistants are all French, and foreign students make the most of these sports camps to improve their French skills because they are immersed in a French-speaking environment 24 hours a day. French is the language used during all activities - sports, leisure time, social activities, meals, etc.

Discover our French and sports camps in France!

Are you interested in taking French lessons AND practicing your favorite sport for 3 hours in the morning? Opt for a sports camp in France WITH French lessons: French and Sports summer camp in France

Read our French Sports Camp Director, Juliette! 

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Activities

If you participate in this Horse Riding summer camp in France, you will be able to:

  • Practice horse riding 6 hours per day
  • Participate in evening activities 
  • Participate in weekend activities
  • For a 2 week stay, you will be able to go to a climbing park with your new friends in Macon

Your French camp leaders will organize nice activities during this Horse Riding summer camp in Rhone-Alpes like games, contests, parties, competitions, etc.

Accommodation

During this Horseback riding summer camp in France, campers live in student residences. All meals included.

  • Shared bedroom ( 2 - 4 beds per room)
  • You can share a bedroom with your friend/sibling
  • The cafeteria is self-service. Balanced menu for campers.

If you have any special diet, please contact your Nacel advisor.

Fees

Horse Riding Summer Camp in France: choose your dates in 2025!

* Prices in Euros

French Summer Camps in France 2025

Each camp session lasts for 7 or 14 days. Arrival on Sunday and departure on Saturday.

Arrival dates for July in Macon are:

  • June 29th, 2025 (1 or 2 weeks) FULL
  • July 6th, 2025 (1 or 2 weeks) please inquire before booking
  • July 13th, 2025 (1 or 2 weeks) please inquire before booking
  • July 20th, 2025 (1 or 2 weeks) please inquire before booking
  • July 27th, 2025  (1 or 2 weeks) FULL

Arrival dates for August in Macon are:

  • August 3rd, 2025 (1 or 2 weeks) FULL
  • August 10th, 2025 (1 or 2 weeks) FULL
  • August 17th (1 week only) FULL

FRENCH LESSONS: Would you like to take French lessons in the afternoon AND practice horseriding for three hours in the morning? 

Opt for a sports camp in France WITH French lessons: French and Sports summer camp in France. This camp combines French and Horseriding and is only offered from July 6th to July 19th, 2025. 

This French and Sports camp is located in Vichy. Riding is possible for beginners up to GALOP 3 but only for horseriders 13-14 years old.

All our sports camps in France are developed and organized by our sports affiliate, SPORTS ELITE JEUNES.

💰 What's Included in the Price?

  • Administration fees
  • Full board accommodation in shared rooms
  • Sports activities are carefully supervised and led by certified chaperones
  • Access to all sports equipment on the campus
  • Social activities during the weekend and in the evenings
  • Support, assistance, and 24H emergency response phone number during the whole program

🚫 What's Not Included?

  • Round-trip international airfare
  • Non-compulsory insurance (luggage lost, flight delay, etc.)
  • Visa, passport, and medical exam fees
  • Group transfer from a Paris train station to the Vichy campus by train, with French chaperones, and back 
  • Personal expenses and spending money
  • Medical, Liability, and Emergency Repatriation insurance: please provide an insurance certificate
Eligibility

If you want to be part of our Horseback Riding Camp in France, you must consider that: 

  • In Mâcon, we only accept students from 13 to 17 years of age with a minimum of GALOP 3. We do not accept beginners.
  • You must have studied French for two years.
  • You must have strong motivation and willingness to create friendships with other participants.
  • You have to make your best effort to speak in French at all times
  • You have to make sure that you have the physical and mental condition to be part of this program
  • You are an experienced horserider and practice the sport regularly.
  • In Vichy, riding is possible for beginners up to GALOP 3 but only for 13-14 year-olds at the French & Sports Training summer camp in France.

This program lets you improve your French, practice a sport and make new friends. Our campers are expected to be mature and flexible.

THIS IS A NON-SMOKING PROGRAM. 

Frequently Asked Questions

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During our sports camp in France your child will be surrounded by French teens. Improvement comes from constant immersion, using the language daily with native speakers. Studies show that four weeks of immersion can be as effective as a year of college language study due to the constant practice.