Château de la Pigossière hosts seminars, galas, roadshows and weddings near Nantes, with room for 350 guests at a seated dinner or 800 at a standing cocktail in the same space. The estate stands in Pont-Saint-Martin, 15 minutes from the center of Nantes, and combines six salons, two pergolas and a six-hectare park.
Seminars and company events
The château receives business events all year and states that it organizes close to 160 of them each year. The formats listed on its company page are seminars, team-building days, roadshows, congresses, conferences, galas, company evenings, fashion shows and trade exhibitions.
The salons are modular, fitted with audiovisual equipment and lit by daylight. For a seminar, the organizer can use one salon for plenary sessions and keep the others for breakout work or breaks. Roadshows and exhibitions are a regular use of the site: the venue says that many touring events stop in Nantes at the château and return every year with new products.
The site can be reserved for a single client. Exclusive use means no other group shares the park or the salons during the event.
Weddings and receptions
Private receptions and weddings are the other half of the activity. The château has been organizing weddings for more than 35 years and offers a turnkey service: reception, caterer, coordination on the day. The cocktail is a feature, with live cooking stations such as a smoker, a brazier, a pizza or tapas bar, a crêpe cart, a food corner and seafood stations. A plane-tree avenue leads to the house, and the park has trees more than a century old, a river and string lights for ceremonies outdoors.
For the evening, a DJ working with the château can build a playlist around the couple's wishes.
Rooms and capacities
The official figures are 6 salons and 2 pergolas on one level, all modular. In one space the site accommodates 350 guests at a seated dinner or 800 at a cocktail. The salons are sound-equipped and lit by natural light. The grounds include a car park of more than 200 spaces.
Accommodation
There are no bedrooms in the château itself. Partners offer more than 300 beds within 4 km, in guest houses, hotels and a group of chalets with 120 places, at preferential rates. The château names the Abbaye de Villeneuve, the Château de la Plinguetière, the Gîtes de Grand-Lieu and the Akena hotel in Rezé among them. Taxis and ride-hailing cars are quick to order from Nantes, and a late-night shuttle can be arranged.
Catering
Catering is in-house. The team presents its kitchen as entirely homemade, cooked to order from fresh products supplied by local producers, and follows a corporate social responsibility charter. The chef named on the company page is Fabrice Augereau. Cocktails, gala dinners and buffets are all prepared by the same team.
History and setting
The estate is run by a family business with more than 35 years of experience in receptions and catering. The setting is a château and a six-hectare park of centuries-old trees, in the vineyard country south-east of Nantes, on Rue du Vignoble.
Getting there
The château is 15 minutes from Nantes and 5 km from Nantes airport. Parking is on site. Guests who prefer not to drive can use taxis or a shuttle arranged for the end of the evening.
