The Château de l'Aile hosts seminars, meetings, training days and receptions, with cocktails for up to 140 guests and a seated dinner followed by an evening for up to 90. The neo-Gothic château stands on the Grande Place in the center of Vevey, on the shore of Lake Geneva, close to the railway station and the lake boat landing.
Seminars and company events
The château takes seminars, conferences, meetings, training sessions, team building, after-work events and photo shoots. Meeting rooms suit small committees, and the salons are arranged to match each program. The vaulted caveau seats 60. Wi-Fi, a projector and a flipchart are included. For a full day, an aperitif and a meal can be added, prepared by the client's own caterer or by one of the château's partners. The house can be booked exclusively for private or professional events, and it also hosts art exhibitions and pop-up sales.
Weddings and receptions
Couples can use the salons, the turrets, the caveau, the inner courtyard, the terrace and the garden. A secular ceremony takes up to 70 guests, indoors or outdoors, with vows and décor chosen by the couple. An aperitif alone takes up to 120 guests, a meal with an evening up to 90, and an aperitif, meal and evening together up to 70. The château recommends caterers, florists, photographers and decorators, and couples may bring their own suppliers.
Rooms and capacities
For corporate events the château gives three figures: 140 guests for a cocktail, 90 for a meal and evening, and 80 for a cocktail, meal and evening. The caveau, the vaulted cellar also used for exhibitions, seats 60. Salons and meeting rooms are set up to order, and the courtyard, terrace and garden add outdoor space a few steps from the lake.
Accommodation
Five units take two guests each: Suite Jaman and Suite Grammont of 55 square meters, Chambre Vevey of 45 square meters, the 90-square-meter Suite Château, and a ground-floor apartment with its own entrance. Minimum stays are two nights, three for the apartment. The rooms suit speakers, a board or a wedding couple rather than a whole group.
Catering
The site names no in-house kitchen. Meals and aperitifs come from the client's own caterer or from the château's partner caterers, and menus are arranged on request.
History and setting
The name comes from the town's former halles, recorded from 1545 and later an inn. In 1681 A. Chastelain turned the house into a pleasure château, and from 1685 the Couvreu family enlarged it with gardens, an orangery and the chestnut-lined promenade. In 1839 Jacques-Edouard Couvreu commissioned the architect Philippe Franel, who rebuilt the house in the neo-Gothic style in the 1840s, one of the major works of that style in Vaud, with a hot-air heating system that still exists. The town of Vevey bought the château in 1988 and sold it to Bernd Grohe in 2007. A restoration involving more than 90 people, mostly local craftspeople, ran from 2008 until the inauguration on June 10, 2017. The château is a Swiss cultural property of national significance.
Getting there
The address is Grande Place 1, 1800 Vevey, at the foot of the Grande Place car park. Vevey railway station is close by, and the CGN landing for the lake boats is nearby. Geneva Airport is the nearest international airport.
