13 venues
Forts and citadels for events
Fortresses that take seminars, dinners and weddings: Vauban’s Citadelle de Besançon, Festung Kufstein in Tyrol, Castillo de Almodóvar above Córdoba, the 1890s fort of Cap Rocat and the Rajput fort of Six Senses Fort Barwara.
The venues
Besançon, France
Citadelle de Besançon
Six rooms for up to 250 guests inside Vauban's citadel above Besançon, a World Heritage site with three museums
Since 1668
Cala Blava, Spain
Cap Rocat
Antonio Obrador turned the Fortaleza d'Enderrocat, an 1890s fort guarding the bay of Palma, into Cap Rocat, whose rooms occupy the old gun emplacements.
30 rooms · Since 2010
Chauth Ka Barwara, India
Six Senses Fort Barwara
A fourteenth-century Rajput fort restored over a decade, opened in October 2021 with 48 suites and a celebrity wedding two months later.
48 rooms · Since 2021
Almodóvar del Río, Spain
Castillo de Almodóvar
Company meetings, gala dinners and night weddings in a hilltop fortress over the Guadalquivir, 20 km from Córdoba
Kufstein, Austria
Festung Kufstein
Company events, gala dinners and weddings for up to 4,200 guests in a medieval fortress above Kufstein, with a roofed open-air arena
Since 1205
Galle, Sri Lanka
Amangalla
Inside the ramparts of Galle Fort, the 1684 Dutch buildings that became the New Oriental Hotel in 1865 now hold Aman's 28-room Amangalla.
28 rooms · Since 2005
Sausalito, United States
Cavallo Point Lodge
Army officers' houses of the early 1900s at Fort Baker, below the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, restored as rooms inside a national park.
Since 2008
Vienna, Austria
Palais Coburg
Built on a surviving bastion of Vienna's city walls, the 1840s Coburg palace keeps sixteenth-century casemates beneath its suites.
Since 2003
Belmonte, Spain
Castillo de Belmonte
Weddings for up to 700 seated in a fifteenth-century castle in Cuenca, just over an hour from Madrid
Since 1456
Bonnyrigg, United Kingdom
Dalhousie Castle
Turret rooms for 10, a ballroom for 100 on exclusive use and 35 bedrooms in a 13th-century castle 8 miles from Edinburgh
35 rooms
Kalmar, Sweden
Kalmar Castle
Four conference rooms for 2 to 240 people, a 16th-century cellar for company dinners and a castle church for weddings in Kalmar
Since 1200
Kilchoan, United Kingdom
Mingary Castle
Exclusive use of a 13th-century Highland castle with four suites for up to ten guests
4 rooms
Brézé, France
Château de Brézé
Salle Condé seats 250 in the vaulted 16th-century stables of a Loire château 10 km from Saumur