The Domaine de Vareilles hosts weddings, birthdays, christenings, private parties and professional seminars, with a salon that seats 100, a restaurant room for 40 and a courtyard for about 150 standing guests. The estate can be hired in full, with its 16 bedrooms, garden and pool. It is a hotel-restaurant in the countryside at Vareilles, in the Creuse, where the Creuse, Indre and Haute-Vienne meet, 10 minutes from La Souterraine and close to the A20 motorway.
Seminars and company events
The estate lists professional seminars alongside private events. The Orangerie, the restaurant room for 40 seated, suits a working lunch or a smaller company event, and the Salon Galerie takes larger groups for a dinner or an evening. With full hire, a team can stay on site in the 16 bedrooms and use the garden, the pool and the billiards room between sessions. The site does not detail meeting equipment, so the team should confirm projection and connectivity for a working day.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are the estate's main event business. A typical program runs over several days: dinner the evening before, drinks in the courtyard, the wedding dinner and dancing in the Salon Galerie, and brunch the next morning. With full hire, the couple has exclusive use of the salons, the reception room, the courtyard, the garden, the pool area and the bedrooms. Visits can be arranged before booking.
Rooms and capacities
The Salon Galerie is the center of the estate: a large, bright room with a fireplace and a bar, seating up to 100 for a dinner or a dance. The Orangerie, a former greenhouse that now houses the restaurant, seats 40 and suits smaller receptions, family meals and professional events. The Cour Intérieure, a large paved courtyard, holds about 150 standing guests for drinks or a cocktail. A wide wooden staircase leads from the courtyard to some of the bedrooms, and large doors open onto the garden and pool, which are included when the estate is hired in full.
Accommodation
The hotel has 16 bedrooms with exposed beams and old materials. Some are reached from the courtyard staircase. The outdoor pool is open from May to September, and there are billiards and children's games on site.
Catering
The estate's own kitchen caters every event, from the cocktail to the seated dinner and the next-day brunch, using fresh and local produce. Two set menus are offered: a Domaine de Vareilles menu with starter, main course, cheese and coffee with sweets, and a longer Signature menu with fish and meat courses. A 90-minute drinks buffet with six appetizers can open the event, and the brunch is built around the group. Menus can be tailored.
History and setting
The estate belongs to a group of buildings once tied to the Château de Fontvieille, which stands opposite and is now a separate private property. The building that houses the reception dates from the 17th century and was used to store grain. Later came stables for racehorses and carriage houses, now the restaurant kitchen; the Orangerie was a greenhouse, and the bedrooms once lodged the château staff. Abandoned in the 1970s, the buildings were bought by the current owner, Reda Sadziute, in 2002 and restored between 2002 and 2009. The restaurant opened in 2007, nine bedrooms followed in 2009, and the hotel now has 16.
Getting there
The address is D71, Fontvieille, 23300 Vareilles. La Souterraine is 10 minutes away, Limoges 45 minutes, Paris about 3 hours 20 minutes and Toulouse about 3 hours 30 minutes by road.
