The Domaine de la Chartrognière hosts residential seminars, study days, team building, product launches, company evenings and weddings, from working groups of 5 to receptions of 200 guests. It sleeps 44 people on site, 27 in the manor and 17 in two cottages. The estate is a 16th-century manor in a 3-hectare park at Saint-Thomas-en-Royans, in the Drôme, at the foot of the Vercors cliffs.
Seminars and company events
The estate takes working groups of 5 to 150 people. Two meeting rooms of 60 and 45 square meters come fully equipped with flat screens, projectors, a printer and scanner, a sound system and a conference phone, and an open bar can run during breaks. Several equipped salons serve as breakout rooms, and the reception room seats 150 for a plenary session. Wi-Fi and office furniture are provided.
For a residential seminar, the group can sleep on site. The team organizes side activities: wine and local produce tastings, drives in vintage cars along the roads cut into the Vercors cliffs, flights over the massif, nature walks, skiing in season, cultural visits and sports challenges. The estate also lists conferences, galas, exhibitions and New Year receptions among its formats.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings follow the day from the ceremony to the party. Couples can arrive by horse-drawn carriage or vintage car. Secular ceremonies take place in the formal French garden or under the old trees of the park. The wine reception is served on the south-facing terrace under the wisteria, or in the adjoining salons if it rains. The wedding dinner is laid out in the reception room and the salons for 30 to 200 guests, with the table plan of your choice. The estate is wired for sound and has a giant screen for a DJ evening. Couples stay in the bridal suite, and the estate can be hired for a whole weekend or a full week.
Rooms and capacities
The ground floor covers more than 900 square meters: a reception room of 135 square meters, three adjoining salons, a TV room, a bar and smoking room for spirits and cigars, two equipped meeting rooms and a professional kitchen. A guards' hall with a monumental fireplace and a vaulted cellar complete the house. Outside, the park offers lit paths, a formal garden, fountains and ponds.
Accommodation
The manor has 10 rooms and suites for 27 guests. They include the bridal suite with a terrace facing the Vercors, the Molière and Jean d'Ormesson family suites for up to 7, and premium rooms named after writers. Two standard rooms share a bathroom. Next to the manor, the Gîte des Amis sleeps 6 to 12 in four bedrooms with a kitchen, and the Gîte du Gardien sleeps 2 to 4, with a bathroom adapted for reduced mobility.
Catering
Meals are prepared by regional partner caterers selected by the estate. A full package can cover the cocktail, the dinner, the dessert and drinks, and the team helps match wines to the menu.
History and setting
The manor was built in the 16th century on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa; a Roman tomb stele is set into the dovecote wall. It was remodeled in the 18th century. In the postwar decades, the painter Jean Palayer hosted large regional weddings here with the restaurant Bouvarel. In 1995, the industrialist Emilio Gallucio restored it, and in 2016 the Goubet family, owners of the Domaine du Traffet in Villard-de-Lans, bought it and spent two years renovating.
Getting there
The estate is 15 minutes from exit 9 of the Grenoble to Valence motorway and 20 minutes from Valence TGV station. By road, Valence is about 30 minutes away, Grenoble 45 minutes and Lyon 1 hour 30. Grenoble-Isère airport is 45 minutes away and Lyon Saint-Exupéry 1 hour 15.
