The Château de Siran hosts executive committees, board meetings, team meetings and training days for groups of up to about 20 participants, with the option of a residential seminar using the hotel's 11 rooms and suites. It is a 4-star hotel set in a château on the old ramparts of Siran, a village in the Hérault on the border with the Aude, in the Minervois wine country between Carcassonne and Narbonne.
Seminars and company events
The seminar offer is built for small groups that want quiet and close attention rather than a conference center. Nadège and Gérard Blet run the house with their son Thomas, the chef, and Gérard handles seminar requests directly. Each program is put together to order: working sessions, meals at the restaurant, breaks in the garden or at the spa, and an evening at the lounge bar.
Incentive ideas on the hotel's list include a dinner at the château with a local winemaker, cooking workshops led by Thomas in the hotel kitchens, an outing to the medieval village of Minerve, and a morning in the vineyards of the Massamier La Mignarde estate, where teams plant trees among the vines as part of an agroforestry project.
Rooms and capacities
The main meeting room is Le Cellier, a vaulted house in the inner courtyard dating from the medieval core of the estate. It looks onto the courtyard and has professional equipment for presentations. The château also offers several smaller rooms that can be arranged for breakout sessions or themed workshops. The hotel gives one figure for the whole offer, about 20 participants, and does not publish capacities room by room.
Accommodation
The hotel has 11 rooms and suites, each decorated differently, which is enough to house a full seminar group on site. Breakfast is served in Le Cellier in spring. Guests have the use of a 130 m² spa with treatments and massages, an outdoor pool heated from May, and a Mediterranean garden.
Catering
Meals are served by the hotel's own restaurant, Le 1669, where Thomas Blet cooks a seasonal menu built on produce from nearby growers, oil from a local mill and edible flowers from a neighboring grower. Dinner is served in a dining room with a painted French ceiling or outside under the garden trees. From autumn, the vaulted Cellier becomes a more intimate dining room. The restaurant is open every evening by reservation, and seminar lunches and dinners are arranged with the team.
History and setting
According to the hotel, Siran takes its name from a Roman general who was granted these lands, and the village stayed largely independent until the Cathar period. The château was later built by the bishop of Saint-Pons on the old ramparts, around a 13th-century house. Rubble stone walls, towers and vaulted rooms survive, and successive restorations have kept the original layout. The house sits between vineyards and the foothills of the Montagne Noire, and the family works with local winemakers, artisans and artists.
Getting there
The address is 1 avenue du Château, 34210 Siran. By road, Carcassonne and Narbonne are each about 30 minutes away, Béziers about 55 minutes, and Toulouse and Montpellier about 1 hour 30. The nearest station is Lézignan-Corbières, 15 km away; Carcassonne (27 km) and Narbonne (34 km) have more frequent services, including high-speed trains at Narbonne. Carcassonne airport is 34 km away. Parking is opposite the château, with an electric charging point.
