12 venues
Vaulted cellars and caves
Venues where the party goes underground: candlelit dinners in the troglodyte cavities of Château de Commarque, the vaulted cellar at Turku Castle, the medieval crypt at Glamis and wine cellars at Burg Forchtenstein.
The venues
Les Eyzies, France
Château de Commarque
Seminars, team challenges and candlelit dinners for 20 to 55 in the cave rooms of a cliff-side medieval site in the Périgord Noir
Since 1200
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Althoff Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg
Ten event spaces for up to 300 guests and 111 rooms in a baroque palace east of Cologne
111 rooms · Since 1997
Haute-Goulaine, France
Château de Goulaine
An orangery for 250 seated, Renaissance rooms for 150 and gardens for 2,000, 15 minutes south-east of Nantes
Turku, Finland
Turku Castle
Nine rentable spaces in Finland's largest medieval castle, from a vaulted cellar for 30 to the King's Hall for 250, by Turku harbor
Since 1300
Glamis, United Kingdom
Glamis Castle
Boardroom for 12, ceremonies for up to 150 and marquee receptions for 200 at the Angus seat of the Earls of Strathmore
7 rooms · Since 1372
Forchtenstein, Austria
Burg Forchtenstein
Seven rooms for 10 to 250 guests, from a baroque hall to 17th-century wine cellars, in an Esterházy castle 40 minutes from Vienna
Mikulov, Czech Republic
Mikulov Castle
Nine historic spaces for congresses, banquets, weddings and wine tastings in a baroque castle in South Moravia
Since 1300
Loppem, Belgium
Kasteel van Loppem
A 300 m² former riding hall seating 250 to 300 or 450 standing, on the Loppem castle estate near Bruges, with your own caterer
Since 1858
Kliczków, Poland
Zamek Kliczków
Ten conference rooms for up to 300 guests and 128 bedrooms in a castle hotel in the Lower Silesian forests, by the A4 and A18
128 rooms
Pezinok, Slovakia
Pezinok Castle
A castle 20 km from Bratislava with a 450-guest hall, 48 rooms and apartments and whole-castle hire
48 rooms · Since 1300
Brézé, France
Château de Brézé
Salle Condé seats 250 in the vaulted 16th-century stables of a Loire château 10 km from Saumur
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