The home of de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, is on Airbnb

On July 26, less than a year after the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, the Château de Mirville – the childhood home of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics – will host for one night only one pair of visitors for a symbolic price of 24€. The castle – in which Pierre de Coubertin developed his great love for the sport, giving rise to a proper cultural revolution – will be one of the fundamental stages of the path of the Olympic torch.

Built in the 16th century in the Pays de Caux valley, in Normandy, France, the Château de Mirville has recently been renovated with the support of the International Olympic Committee and has become part of Airbnb’s Heritage and Local Tourism programme. During the stay guests can play tennis with champion Caroline Garcia on the field where probably one of the very first tennis matches on the lawn was played, visit the building together with de Coubertin’s great-grandson, take a boat ride on the lake where the baron developed his passion for rowing and immerse himself in the history of the Olympics, discovering relics such as the Olympic Manifesto of 1892, in which appear the famous rings designed for the first time by Coubertin and an entrance ticket for the first 1900 Games.