Château de Taulane hosts seminars, study days, golf events and weddings. Its seminar room takes up to 59 people, its restaurant seats 125 wedding guests with a dance floor, and the four-star hotel has 29 rooms and suites, with 18 more rooms available when the estate is hired in full. The château stands on a 340-hectare estate at La Martre, in the Var, between the Côte d'Azur and the Verdon Gorges.
Seminars and company events
The seminar room has daylight and a view over the golf course. It holds up to 59 people and comes with a video projector, a flipchart and notepads. The hotel's sales team builds a program for groups who stay overnight, and the restaurant team handles day meetings, lunches and coffee breaks without rooms.
Activities on site include golf rounds, lessons and courses on the estate's 18-hole course, and the spa. Nearby, within about 15 minutes, groups can book white-water sports in the Verdon, the Via Souterrata underground route, tree-top courses and zip lines. The estate also hosts golf tournaments, competitions, car rallies and family banquets.
Weddings and receptions
For a wedding, full hire of the hotel and the restaurant is required from Friday to Sunday. The hotel hire runs from Friday at 4 p.m. to Sunday at 11 a.m. and covers the 29 rooms, which sleep 74 guests. Adding the 18 rooms in the annexes brings the total to 47 rooms and 118 guests. The annexes are not part of the four-star classification.
The cocktail takes place on the château terrace, in front of the main façade, with the estate's teak furniture. Dinner is held in the Marquise de Lisle restaurant, which has large bay windows with a 180-degree view over the golf course, a dance floor and a terrace opening onto the fairways. Because the château sits at about 1,000 meters of altitude, the team does not serve dinner outdoors. Wedding guests have access to the solarium, indoor heated pool, sauna, hammam and hot tub, though the spa itself is not privatized.
Rooms and capacities
The seminar room is listed for 59 people. The Marquise de Lisle restaurant seats 125 guests with a dance floor, at round tables for 8 to 10. The château terrace hosts the cocktail. The Trattoria da Mario, with a terrace above the 9th and 18th holes, serves the hotel and golf guests.
Accommodation
The 29 rooms and suites range from single rooms of 18 m² to Classic and Superior rooms in the château, a 35 m² junior suite, the Suite de l'Amiral, the Suite Impériale, a room in the dovecote tower and a loft for four. Two ground-floor rooms are adapted for guests with reduced mobility, and the château has an elevator. The ground floor offers a TV lounge, a library, a games room and a billiards room. The hotel has no air conditioning, and pets are not admitted.
Catering
Catering is in-house only: the château does not accept outside caterers. The restaurant serves Mediterranean and Provençal market cuisine, and the wedding brochure sets out dinner menus, a cocktail, a cheese buffet and a next-day brunch.
History and setting
Louis Auguste de Lisle, Marquis de Taulane and a commander in the royal navy, built the present house in the 18th century beside the ruins of a medieval castle, and gave it four dovecotes. A marble plaque from 1774 hangs in the hall, and the entrance portico carries the date 1791, when the house was repaired after the Revolution. Mario Contini restored it as a hotel and opened the estate in 1992, with a par-72 course designed by Gary Player, his first in France.
Getting there
The estate is about one hour by road from Nice and Cannes. The hotel is open from mid-April to mid-October and closes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays outside midsummer.
