Goulapie hosts team retreats, company seminars, training courses, small conferences, family reunions, christenings, birthdays and small weddings for up to 60 guests. The site combines two shared halls, for 48 and 60 people, with six holiday cottages that sleep 48 to 52 in 23 bedrooms. It lies at La Sagnole, in Saint-Quentin-sur-Sauxillanges, 3 kilometers from the village of Sauxillanges and 15 kilometers east of Issoire, in the Puy-de-Dôme.
Seminars and company events
The owners list company seminars, conferences, meetings, training courses and team-building programs among the uses of the village. The hall called MARAME serves as the meeting room, and the many living rooms in the cottages allow a group to split into subgroups between plenary sessions. The garden suits outdoor sessions such as yoga, tai chi or qi gong, and a 42-square-meter games room with billiards and table tennis is set up in the Jepatan cottage. A group of about fifty can take the whole village and live on site for several days.
Weddings and receptions
MARAME is offered as a reception room for 60 guests for weddings, christenings, birthdays and family reunions. The garden takes the cocktail or the vin d'honneur, and guests sleep in the cottages after the party.
Rooms and capacities
MARAME is a multipurpose hall of 80 square meters with an open kitchen, for up to 60 guests. JEPHOS is a dining room of 43 square meters for up to 48 guests at six tables of eight, 40 at four tables of ten or two of twenty, or 36 in a U shape. It has its own terrace, used as an outdoor extension in good weather. JEPHOS must be booked when a group in several cottages exceeds 22 people. The whole village covers about 1,100 square meters of living space on 7,000 square meters of grounds.
Accommodation
Six cottages, rated three épis by Gîtes de France, are spread across eight stone houses. Herest sleeps 10, Lilotte 6 and Moquine 2 to 4; these three connect and together take 18 to 22. Jepatan sleeps 9, Majes 6 and Naole up to 14, each independent. In total there are 23 bedrooms with real beds (no dormitories or bunks), 13 shower rooms and six kitchens. Heating, bed linen, towels, Wi-Fi and cleaning are included, and baby equipment is available on request. Outside school holidays, stays can start from one night.
Catering
Groups cater for themselves or bring in a caterer. JEPHOS has a professional kitchen with a five-burner gas range, an oven, a hot-holding unit, a refrigerated cabinet, a freezer, a professional dishwasher and tableware for 50.
History and setting
The project began in 1995, when Jean-Patrick Le Guehennec, an architect by training, bought a group of farmhouses and outbuildings left empty for more than 30 years. Over 25 years the houses were restored in the rural style of the Livradois: Herest, Lilotte and Moquine opened in 2006, Majes in 2009, Jepatan in 2017, Naole and the JEPHOS hall in 2021, and MARAME in 2023. The hamlet sits at 700 meters in the Livradois-Forez natural park, above the Goulapie valley, with a view across the Auvergne volcanoes from the Puy de Sancy to the Puy de Dôme.
Getting there
Issoire is about 15 kilometers to the west. Sauxillanges, 3 kilometers away, has shops and services. A car is needed to reach the hamlet.
