The Château de Mazières hosts seminars, study days, general meetings, conventions, product launches, cocktails and weddings for 10 to 350 guests, with no time limit on events. The estate is hired exclusively and offers several reception rooms, a plenary room, a covered barn and outdoor space for up to 1,000 people. It lies in a 20-hectare park in the Bouzanne valley at Tendu, in the Indre, near Châteauroux.
Seminars and company events
The estate offers three modular rooms of 74 to 300 square meters, a plenary room of 290 square meters, a covered barn of 330 square meters and an outdoor area for up to 1,000 people. The Salle Boisée, the plenary room, has a chalet-style wood interior. Teaching equipment includes a video projector, an overhead projector, flipcharts, a screen, a sound system and Wi-Fi, and other equipment can be supplied on request.
The team works with partner suppliers for transfers, evening entertainment, fireworks, arrivals by helicopter or limousine and other services, and can deliver a program from start to finish. The covered barn shelters incentive activities in bad weather. A five-seat jacuzzi and treatments by a partner beautician are available for a break.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are the estate's main private business, and recent ones have included a civil-style ceremony in the park, a cocktail with entertainment, dinner under the barn with a live band, and fireworks. The whole estate can be lit at night. Tables, pedestal tables, chairs and technical equipment can be hired on site. Guests can stay in the bed and breakfast rooms and gîtes, and the estate also hosts christenings, birthdays and cocktails.
Rooms and capacities
Salle Romantique: beams, parquet floor and lime-washed walls, up to 270 seated, divisible for smaller events, with large bay windows onto the terraces. Salle Médiévale: exposed stone and Berry terracotta tiles, 10 to 60 people, connecting with the Salle Romantique or hired alone. Salle Boisée: plenary room. Le Préau: a restored barn of 330 square meters with sandblasted stone walls, wall torches and sheer curtains, used for lunches and dinners. Both main rooms open onto outdoor terraces.
Accommodation
The renovated outbuildings hold five bed and breakfast rooms and two suites, each with a private bathroom and a view of the park. The estate also has a group gîte and two gîtes for 7 and 10 people. Bed and breakfast guests have use of a large private swimming pool.
Catering
The estate does not impose a caterer. A kitchen with bay windows, next to the Salle Romantique, has modern appliances and is available to the client or to the caterer of their choice. The team can recommend partner caterers.
History and setting
The château is listed on the inventory of historic monuments for its 12th-century keep, its two terraces and the 14th-century tower of the main house. It was built on the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa. Over the centuries five towers were destroyed, one of them holding a chapel with 17th-century frescoes. The park is crossed by a loop of the Bouzanne, whose banks are protected, at the edge of the Brenne. The owners, M. and Mme Levin, also run an association that promotes the site's heritage.
Getting there
The estate is 290 km from Paris, about 2 hours 30 minutes by car via the A20, exit 16 for Tendu, which is five minutes away. Châteauroux and Argenton-sur-Creuse stations are about two hours from Paris by train. The nearest airports are Châteauroux-Déols and Limoges.
