Domaine La Plume can host residential seminars, leadership retreats, weddings and family gatherings for up to 150 guests, with 17 bedrooms on site. The estate offers a 150-guest reception room, a 67-square-meter conference room, a vaulted bar and a nine-hectare park. It is an Italian-style villa, formerly the hunting lodge of the Marquis de La Penne, in the village of La Penne, inside the Préalpes d'Azur regional nature park in the Alpes-Maritimes.
Seminars and company events
The estate takes seminars in full privatization only, so a company has the whole house to itself. The team builds a tailored program with each client, and the estate positions itself as a place for executives and entrepreneurs to step back and work on strategy in a natural setting. Work sessions take place in the conference room, breaks on the terraces, and the yoga room can host a morning session with a coach.
Weddings and receptions
The estate hosts weddings and other private events such as family reunions, cousin gatherings and birthdays, with accommodation for guests. Couples choose the spot for their secular ceremony anywhere on the grounds: terraces, flowered gardens, lawns or the small vaulted room. The reception room opens through large bay windows onto the garden level and a mountain view. After dinner, the party moves to the vaulted room, used as a bar and dance space, with connections ready for the DJ's sound and lighting.
Rooms and capacities
The reception room seats or receives up to 150 guests, with bay windows opening onto the terrace above the park. The conference room covers 67 square meters and can be arranged freely; it doubles as a dance floor at private events. The vaulted room serves as a bar. A yoga room faces the mountains and a large lounge offers armchairs for informal talks. Outdoors, the estate has a pool, a south terrace, a shaded east terrace, a summer lounge above the pool and a pergola on the garden level.
Accommodation
The villa has 17 bedrooms, each named after a French song and decorated simply with natural materials. They open onto the countryside. Guests share the lounges and a fully equipped family kitchen, so the house works like a large family home during the stay.
Catering
A professional kitchen is available for the estate's own cooking or for an outside chef or caterer. The estate grows fruit, vegetables and flowers on its own certified farm, run on permaculture principles, and chooses suppliers from the Préalpes d'Azur and the wider region.
History and setting
The villa was the hunting lodge of the Marquis de La Penne. Its nine-hectare park holds the farm, four ponds and the estate's animals. Sustainability guides the operation: solar roof tiles in terracotta color supply all of the electricity in summer, the ponds collect rainwater for irrigation, and underfloor heating can be switched off room by room. As a member of the regional nature park, the estate limits noise after 11 p.m.
Getting there
La Penne is a mountain village in the hinterland of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes. Groups usually arrive by car or coach along mountain roads. Ask the estate about transfers from Nice for your group.
