Château d'Arpaillargues can host weddings, seminars, group stays and private dinners, with rooms for 40 to 160 seated guests and up to 300 for a standing cocktail. The whole site can be hired exclusively, including its 28 bedrooms for up to 70 overnight guests. The château is a 4-star hotel on rue du Château in Arpaillargues, in the Gard, at the edge of the village and 4 kilometers west of Uzès.
Seminars and company events
The hotel takes seminars and group bookings through its sales team, which handles each request directly and sends a seminar brochure on request. A new 150 m² room has been added for seminars, weddings and private parties. The smaller Salon Flavigny suits a board meeting or a working lunch for a small team, and the vaulted hall can serve as a plenary room or a dinner venue. Free internet runs through the hotel. Between sessions, groups can use the 10 by 15 meter pool, an outdoor jacuzzi, a tennis court, a pétanque ground and table tennis, and massages can be booked on weekday evenings.
Weddings and receptions
The château sells full wedding receptions and offers exclusive hire of the entire site: all bedrooms, reception rooms and lounges, the park, the pool and the parking. A ceremony altar can be set up in the park. Room hire includes staff, tables, chairs, linen, tableware, electricity and heating. Couples can add food stations, late-night sweets and drinks packages, and a brunch is served the next day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For a larger outdoor reception, a marquee for up to 250 guests can be put up in the park through the hotel's partner.
Rooms and capacities
The Salon Flavigny (7.8 by 6.2 meters) seats 40 for dinner and holds 60 standing. The Grande Salle voûtée (15 by 6.5 meters) seats 70 and holds 100 standing, with room to dance. The Cour d'honneur, an outdoor courtyard of 20 by 10 meters, seats 160 and holds 200 standing. The Orangerie (6.5 by 24 meters) seats 160 and holds 300 standing, also with dancing. The indoor restaurant seats up to 160 in summer.
Accommodation
The hotel has 28 bedrooms, including four suites. Rooms are spread between the main château, where the Marie d'Agoult suite and the larger Château rooms have high ceilings and some marble fireplaces, and the Magnanerie wing, with smaller rooms of about 15 m² in old stone. Several rooms take three or four people. Three rooms are adapted for guests with reduced mobility, and the ground-floor common areas are accessible.
Catering
Catering is in-house. The chef, Philippe Houy, holds the Maître Cuisinier de France title. For a reception, one menu is served to all guests, and the final menu and number are due one month before the event. A tasting can be arranged for the couple on weekdays. Guests may bring their own wine or champagne for a corkage fee. In season, from March to October, the poolside restaurant La Plage aux Herbes serves lunch and dinner.
History and setting
The house dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. It passed from the Bertha family in the 15th century to the Bargeton family in 1559, then to the Agoult family by marriage in 1647. Charles d'Agoult, husband of Marie de Flavigny, the companion of Franz Liszt, was born here in 1790. Choderlos de Laclos is said to have based Madame de Merteuil on a marquise of the house, and Balzac borrowed the Bargeton name. The Savry family turned the château into a hotel in 1973.
Getting there
The château stands at the edge of Arpaillargues, 4 kilometers west of Uzès, with parking on site. Nîmes is the nearest city with a main railway station.
