Domaine du COQ en PAT hosts residential seminars for 5 to 17 people and study days for up to 20, on an organic farm estate of about 100 hectares at Augerolles, in the Livradois-Forez nature park of Puy-de-Dôme. The whole estate can be booked exclusively, with up to 21 people sleeping on site.
Seminars and company events
The offer is built for teams that want to work away from the office for a few days. Groups work in the common rooms of the stone gîte, with fiber Wi-Fi, and a flipchart and video projector on request. Meals are cooked on site in full board, from a welcome coffee to a buffet lunch and a seated dinner. Between sessions, the program can include orienteering, mountain biking, archery, farm workshops, hiking, yoga, outdoor creative workshops and evenings around the fire. The 25 m natural swimming pool, the barrel sauna and the Nordic bath are part of the stay. The estate also takes sports groups, with trail routes and the Espace VTT du Forez nearby, as well as family reunions.
Rooms and capacities
The gîte offers 220 m² in all, with a 60 m² common room under exposed beams and a fireside lounge, a long wooden table that seats the whole group, an open, fully equipped kitchen, and a quieter second lounge on the top floor. For a study day without an overnight stay, the estate takes up to 20 participants.
Accommodation
The gîte has five bedrooms named after towns of the area, Issoire, Ambert, Chaise-Dieu, Thiers and Montpeyroux, with 13 beds plus 2 on a sofa bed, and four shared shower rooms. Two eco-lodges add four beds: PATiny, a tiny house for two with a terrace, and COQhome, a cabin for two adults or a family of four. With the cabins, the estate sleeps up to 21 when booked exclusively.
Catering
Breakfasts use organic produce from the farm, and dinners on request feature local dishes such as Fourme cheese, sourdough bread and vegetables from the garden. Outside, a barbecue, a picnic table under a walnut tree and a pétanque court serve informal meals and evenings.
History and setting
Vincent and Patricia, former city dwellers and triathletes, turned an old Puy-de-Dôme farm into a place to stay and opened it in 2023 after three years of work. They live on site with their son. The farm has been certified organic since 2024, with laying hens, sheep grazing 11 hectares, a permaculture garden and an orchard of old varieties and soft fruit. The pool is filtered naturally without chlorine and opens from April to October. Construction uses bio-sourced materials and local craftsmen.
Getting there
The address is Chabanne, 63930 Augerolles. Clermont-Ferrand is about 50 minutes by car, Saint-Étienne 1 h 15 and Lyon 1 h 30. Private parking is available on site.
