Château de Sully-sur-Loire

Part or all of the Château de Sully-sur-Loire can be reserved for seminars, conferences, symposiums and private receptions, and the château's team can add guided visits and activities for team building. The halls of the keep cover about 300 square metres. The château stands by the Loire in the town of Sully-sur-Loire, in the Loiret, and belongs to the Département du Loiret.

Seminars and company events

Part of the site can be set aside for a seminar, a conference or a colloquium, with a video projector, furniture and heating provided. Groups can combine working sessions with a guided tour of the 19 rooms on the visitor route, or with activities run by the château team, which suits team-building programmes. For larger gatherings, the whole château can be reserved for a single event, which opens every room and the collections to the group. Each request receives a personalised quote from the château.

Weddings and receptions

The château advertises hire for receptions and private events. Organisers planning a family celebration should ask the team which rooms and outdoor spaces can be used and on what terms. The furnished rooms and the inner courtyard are also hired for filming and photo shoots.

Rooms and capacities

Spaces open for hire include the halls of the keep, about 300 square metres in all, and its roof frame; the Petit château; the salle d'honneur; the grand salon; the king's bedroom; Psyché's bedroom; the steward's office; the dining room; and the inner courtyard. The château does not publish capacities for each room, so numbers are confirmed with the team when the quote is prepared.

History and setting

A castle is first recorded here in 1102. Guy VI de La Trémoïlle began the present keep in 1395, and about 80 per cent of its roof frame is thought to date from the early 15th century. Joan of Arc met the future Charles VII at Sully in 1429. In 1602 Maximilien de Béthune, minister and friend of Henri IV, bought the castle. He became Duke of Sully in 1606 and added the artillery tower and the galleries that link the buildings. Louis XIV stayed here during the Fronde, and Voltaire, exiled to Sully several times between 1716 and 1725, staged a play in the keep. A fire in 1918 and shelling in 1940 damaged parts of the building. The Département du Loiret bought the castle and its park in 1962 and refurnished the 18th-century wing in 2006. The château is a listed historic monument within the Loire Valley World Heritage area, and its park is a protected natural area.

Getting there

Orléans is about 45 minutes away and Paris under two hours. The nearest stations are Orléans and Gien, and a regional bus runs from Orléans to the Porte de Sologne stop in about an hour and a half. The main car park, P1, is next to the château and park. A second car park sits in the town centre, under 500 metres away, and a third at Saint-Père-sur-Loire, across the Eiffel footbridge, is advised for large events.