Château de Vitry-la-Ville can host company seminars, training days, private receptions and weddings for up to 80 seated guests indoors and up to 200 seated guests outdoors. The château stands at 1 rue de l'Église in Vitry-la-Ville, a village in the Marne about 16 km southeast of Châlons-en-Champagne.
Seminars and company events
The house sells company seminars and events alongside private parties. Its home page lists equipped training rooms and a business center, with Wi-Fi in the house. A separate program of courses, retreats and coaching sessions runs on the estate, so the owners are used to groups that work and sleep on site for several days.
For commercial or cultural events, the owners list film and music video shoots, concerts and recitals, theater, Champagne tastings, fashion shows, product showrooms and exhibitions, using both the interiors and the grounds as a set. A promotional video for a swing orchestra was filmed here.
For time outside the meeting room, the estate offers walks in the 17-hectare grounds, fishing in the ponds, rowing on the moats, a heated pool, a fitness room, table tennis and a billiards table in the library.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings, secular ceremonies, birthdays and family celebrations take place in three large salons inside the château or outside in the Garden Cottage nearby. The stated capacity is 80 seated indoors and 200 seated outdoors. The site suggests a drinks reception anywhere on the grounds, an arrival of the couple by boat along the moats, a dance evening and fireworks around the house; each of these is agreed with the owners in advance.
Rooms and capacities
The home page refers to five large reception salons and equipped training rooms; the wedding page names three salons and the Garden Cottage. Room names, sizes and layouts are not published, so ask for a floor plan with theater, classroom and banquet figures before you choose. Indoor seated capacity is 80, outdoor seated capacity is 200.
Accommodation
The château offers bed-and-breakfast rooms in single, double, triple and quadruple configurations. Breakfast and access to the on-site activities are included. The whole château can also be hired for a weekend or several days, with all rooms and suites and a fully equipped guest kitchen reserved for the group. The total number of bedrooms is not stated on the site.
Catering
A kitchen was designed for events so that professional caterers can work on site in good conditions; you bring the caterer of your choice. A table d'hôtes service appears among the house services, and breakfast is served to staying guests.
History and setting
The château was built in the 17th century and enlarged in the 18th. It is one of the few houses in Champagne built in chalk stone, with a roof of purple Irish slate. The 17-hectare estate is ringed by rivers, ponds and moats crossed by bridges. The formal French garden is attributed to Le Nôtre, and two wrought-iron gates are credited to the master ironsmith of Louis XIV. The estate lies between the Côte des Blancs and the Sézanne hillsides, within reach of the Champagne cellars.
Getting there
By road, the château is a few kilometers south of the A4 Paris to Strasbourg motorway and east of the A26 toward Troyes: 170 km from Paris, 60 km from Reims and 16 km from Châlons-en-Champagne. The nearest station is Châlons-en-Champagne, 20 minutes by car. Champagne-Ardenne TGV station, near Reims, is 73 km away, about 50 minutes by car. Paris-Vatry airport is 25 km away, and Paris-Charles de Gaulle is about two hours by the A4.
