Seminars and company events
Castello di Piovera hosts conferences, company dinners, team building days and private parties, with conference halls for up to 300 people. The castle stands in Piovera, part of the municipality of Alluvioni Piovera in the province of Alessandria, Piedmont, and is run as a historic residence open to visitors, events and overnight guests.
For companies, the castle offers its halls with audio and video equipment for plenary sessions and presentations. Business lunches, light lunches and dinners can follow in the converted outbuildings or in the park. The events team also proposes entertainment for company evenings, with dancers, singers, musicians and set designers, and past events have included concerts, DJ sets and fireworks.
Team building has a specific format here: an escape room called Il Mistero del Castello, played against a 60-minute clock. Companies can book one or several sessions and shape the rest of the day around the size of the group, which makes it easy to pair a morning meeting with an afternoon game.
Weddings and receptions
The castle has a dedicated wedding service with its own contact, separate from the corporate events team. Receptions can use the same spaces as company events, from the Orangerie to the park, and the couple can stay in one of the suites.
Rooms and capacities
The largest figure the castle states is 300 people for its conference halls. The event spaces shown on the site are the Orangerie, the former granary (Ex granaio), the former cellars (Ex cantine) and a marquee (Tensostruttura) that adds covered space outdoors. The park is used for outdoor dinners and receptions. Ask the events team for seated and standing figures per room, which the site does not publish.
Accommodation
The castle offers four suites: the Suite Oro, with a view of the castle, the Junior Suite, facing the garden, and the Suite Beccaccia and Suite Pernice. They suit a wedding couple, speakers or a small management group rather than a full seminar group, which would stay in hotels in the area.
Catering
The castle works with caterers who adapt menus to each event, from a light lunch to a seated dinner in the Orangerie. Check with the team which caterers it works with before planning the menu.
History and setting
The castle was built in the 14th century on older medieval remains and became a fortress under the Visconti of Milan. The Genoese Balbi family owned it from the 17th century and turned it into a residence in the late 1800s. The Calvi di Bergolo family acquired it in 1967, and Count Niccolò Calvi di Bergolo opened it to the public in 1972. The site keeps its towers, battlements, moats and stables, and holds exhibitions, concerts, a dog show and an agriculture festival through the season. Visits run from April to the first half of November.
Getting there
The address is Via Balbi 2, 15047 Alluvioni Piovera (AL), east of Alessandria in the Po plain. The events office works on weekdays and receives visitors by appointment, so plan a site visit in advance.
