Just outside Poitiers, 10 kilometres north, in walking distance from the CNED campus, on a great green plain, futuristic shapes puncture the skyline. It’s as if all the far fetched settings from the science fiction movies have been beamed down to earth

.Dedicated to the cinema and moving image, Futuroscope is definitely a theme park with a difference. There may be no rollercoasters, but what you do get is state-of-the-art technology and some of the largest and most amazing cinema screens anywhere in the world. The result is a series of adventures that you are not just watching - you are actually living the experience.Futuroscope is 10 kilometres north of Poitiers on the A10 autoroute, exit at junction 28.