Château Laverdines, in Baugy in the Berry region, is rented in full for seminars, weddings and private stays. It has 23 bedrooms and suites with 42 beds, four equipped meeting rooms and a wooded park of 12 hectares. A wedding dinner seats up to 80 guests indoors, and up to 150 outdoors under a reception tent. The château is 2 hours 20 minutes south of Paris and about 30 minutes from Bourges. Only one event takes place at a time.
Seminars and company events
The château offers three formats. The company day covers team building, collaborative workshops, strategy meetings, training, coaching and assessment sessions, with no overnight stay. The residential seminar adds accommodation for strategy retreats, project launches, team integration and innovation sessions. The tailor-made event covers institutional dinners, conferences, conventions, general assemblies, company anniversaries, trade shows and professional workshops, with the whole estate adapted to the brief.
Four equipped rooms serve meetings from small groups to plenary sessions. All have high-speed Wi-Fi, flat screens, connected speakers and paperboards. The team of event organizers builds a program with you and works with outside providers for team activities. Day rentals run from 9:00 to 18:00.
Weddings and receptions
A ceremony can take place in the park, which has ponds, century-old trees and a small bridge, or in the chapel that stands opposite the château and is reached on foot in procession. A wedding dinner seats up to 80 guests indoors. A reception tent or marquee brings the outdoor dinner to 150 guests. Sleeping tents are not allowed.
The rental includes the château and its estate, bed linen for 42 sleepers, final cleaning, and round and rectangular tables and chairs for indoors. It runs from 11:00 on arrival day to 17:00 on departure day. The château imposes no caterer or other provider.
Rooms and capacities
The château lists four reception salons of more than 50 square meters each, plus the park and the tent for larger groups. The home page quotes 140 people for a reception. The salons also work as meeting rooms.
Accommodation
The château sleeps 42 people in 23 bedrooms and suites with bathrooms, including two suites for the newlyweds. Two extra beds and two baby cots are available on request. Guests who do not sleep at the château can stay in gîtes, guest houses and hotels a few minutes away, and the team shares their contacts.
Catering
There is no in-house restaurant. You choose your own caterer, and the château shares a list of trusted providers that know the place. A professional kitchen is available to them.
History and setting
The château was built around 1840 by Monsieur Lalouel de Sourdeval and bought in 1870 by Claude Gindre. It stands in the countryside of the Berry, within 30 minutes of Bourges and close to Sancerre.
Getting there
The address is 2A route de la Chapelle, 18800 Baugy. Paris is 2 hours 20 minutes away by road.
