Château Le Sallay hosts weddings, family celebrations, company days, seminars, master classes and retreats, for up to 200 guests at a seated dinner or a buffet. Outdoor events in the park have no set limit. The estate is booked for one event at a time and offers 17 rooms with more than 40 beds. This four-star château hotel stands in a 4-hectare park at Saincaize-Meauce, in the Nièvre, 15 minutes from Nevers.
Seminars and company events
The château welcomes company seminars, team days, master classes, art and cooking workshops and yoga retreats, and adapts to each format. Large gatherings can use the park: the estate hosted the 50th-anniversary staff days of the Dafy Moto group. Groups can add guided tours of Bourges, Moulins or Auxerre, visits to Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé growers, or a day at the Magny-Cours circuit, 5 km away, to watch races or drive.
The venue does not list meeting equipment, so confirm projection and sound needs with the owners.
Weddings and receptions
For a wedding, the château, the park, the main courtyard and the reception hall are reserved for two days and one night. The hall opens the evening before for decoration. A typical day runs from a non-religious ceremony under old trees to drinks in the courtyard, dinner and dancing until 1 a.m., then brunch by the pool the next morning. The hire includes tables and chairs for 200, the drinks set-up in the courtyard, a bridal room, access to the château kitchen for the caterer, a large car park and step-free access. The team offers full or partial planning, decoration and help with paperwork for guests coming from abroad.
Rooms and capacities
- Reception hall: up to 200 seated, dinner or buffet
- Main courtyard: drinks reception
- Park: 4 hectares for ceremonies, photos and games, no set limit outdoors
- Pool area: next-day brunch
The château does not publish the size of the reception hall in square meters.
Accommodation
The château has 12 rooms and suites in four-star category, each decorated in a different period style, from Renaissance and Empire to Art Deco. A guest house adds two studios and three rooms, including a ground-floor room accessible to guests with reduced mobility. In all, 17 rooms offer more than 40 beds, enough to keep most wedding guests or a seminar group on site.
Catering
The château kitchen prepares menus with the client from fresh, local produce such as Charolais beef, organic vegetables and Nivernais cheeses, and adapts them to vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and diabetic diets. For larger receptions, the owners direct clients to partner caterers, and an outside caterer of the client's choice is also welcome. Drinks can be charged as a package or by consumption, and clients can bring their own wine for a corkage fee. The restaurant is also open to the public.
History and setting
The château is a modest Renaissance building from the early 16th century, with a tower, a cornice with medallions, gabled roofs and former moats. The chapel, built in 1508, has a ribbed vault. Owners are recorded from the early 15th century. Sergey Kuznetsov and Ekaterina Kadieva bought the château in 2017 and restored it.
Getting there
The château is at 1 chemin du Château, 58470 Saincaize-Meauce, near Nevers and easy to reach from Paris by train or car. Bourges and Moulins are less than an hour away, and the Morvan regional park is also within an hour.
