The Château de la Groirie hosts seminars, residential seminars, board meetings, conferences, training days, product launches, gala dinners and weddings, for groups from 5 to 200 people. Its largest room, the Salon des Miroirs, seats 140 in theatre style and 100 at dinner, and the hotel offers 14 rooms on site. The château is a listed historic monument in a park of nearly 100 hectares at Trangé, 6 km from the center of Le Mans, in the Sarthe.
Seminars and company events
Rooms are available by the half day or full day. All have Wi-Fi, a screen and a video projector, and most have daylight. Microphones and speakers are supplied on request. The team coordinates partners and runs the day itself. Activities on site or nearby include rallies, creative workshops, sports challenges, tastings and yoga. The hotel offers parking on site and an electric vehicle charger.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings take place entirely on the estate. Secular ceremonies are held in the park, and the private chapel, octagonal inside and round outside, takes about 20 people for a small service; an outdoor altar can be set in the gardens. The wine reception, dinner, dance and next-day brunch use the salons and gardens. The Salon des Miroirs seats 100 to 110 for a wedding dinner and takes 200 standing, while the Verdures, Rayures and Oiseaux salons serve as wet-weather space for the cocktail. The courtyard can hold about 300 people. The team helps with organization and coordinates the day. The château also hosts birthdays, christenings, communions and engagements.
Rooms and capacities
The Salon des Miroirs, 120 square meters in the 18th-century east wing, opens onto the main courtyard: 50 in a U-shape, 60 cabaret, 140 theatre, 100 at dinner and 150 at a cocktail. The Salon des Verdures, 60 square meters, connects with the Salon des Rayures and takes 65 in theatre style. The Salon des Rayures, 50 square meters, takes 30 to 35 in theatre style. The Salon des Boiseries, 35 square meters upstairs, suits a board of 14. A 30-square-meter ground-floor salon serves as a coffee or breakout room. The indoor reception spaces total about 350 square meters.
Accommodation
The hotel occupies the restored guest wing. Its 14 rooms each have their own decor and four-star comfort. The rooms can take up to 40 people in double occupancy or 20 in single rooms. The château itself is a private home, lived in all year.
Catering
Depending on the event, the château works with a private chef or a trusted partner caterer for coffee breaks, breakfasts, business lunches, gala dinners, cocktails and brunches. The hotel also has a bar with light dining.
History and setting
The estate is documented from the 15th century and became a country residence at the end of the 16th. François de la Rivière, who inherited it in 1616, was its first great builder. Around 1740, the Samson family enlarged it, adding the pavilions, the mansard roof and the dovecote. During the Vendée wars, General Westermann occupied the château at the battle of Le Mans in 1793, and a marble plaque in the courtyard recalls the officers shot there. The château has been listed as a historic monument, inside and out, since 1974. The park includes woods, meadows, a rose garden, a pond and a canal.
Getting there
The château is 10 minutes from Le Mans TGV station and the motorway exit. The TGV links Paris to Le Mans in 56 minutes, Roissy Charles de Gaulle in 1 hour 38 and Nantes in 1 hour 17. The A11, A28 and A81 motorways serve the Sarthe.
