Company retreats and weddings for up to 150 guests, with the whole estate booked for the group, can be organised at Péchy Castle, a family manor estate with a two-hectare English park in Hermanovce, eastern Slovakia. On site are an 18th-century manor house, a clubhouse, a seasonal marquee and a five-room boutique hotel.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells company events built around meetings, sport and shared meals. The upper floor of the Clubhouse, the former gardener's house, is a conference room for up to 40 people, and its rustic terrace, with a well, a stone oven and a charcoal grill, takes about 70. The dining room of the boutique hotel, with a single long table for 14, suits board meetings and negotiations. Larger groups use the Manor House, for up to 100, or the marquee, for up to 150.
Team days can include tennis, volleyball, badminton, boccia, croquet, archery and air-rifle shooting in the park. The Clubhouse has a sauna, showers and a fitness area, and its upper room doubles as a yoga room. Hunting packages for red deer, roe deer and wild boar, in the family forest and neighbouring grounds, are offered on request.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings run from April to November for up to 150 guests, and the entire estate is reserved for the couple. Civil ceremonies take place in the park, religious ones in the Church of Saint Elisabeth, opposite the Manor House. Receptions use the adjoining parlours of the Manor House, with a fireplace, a bar and a column-lined terrace over the park, or the white marquee, fitted with handmade chandeliers, round tables, a dance floor and heaters for cool evenings.
Rooms and capacities
The Manor House holds a dance hall, a dining room and a Japanese parlour with exposed brick and stone walls. The Clubhouse pairs its terrace with the upper conference room. The marquee stands in the park from April to November.
Accommodation
The boutique hotel has five rooms and suites, from the 24 m² Room No. 5 to the 60 m² Family Suite No. 1, for twelve guests in total. Its reading parlours have open fires, a piano and a chess set. The site lists no other bedrooms, so larger groups need rooms nearby.
Catering
Coffee breaks, buffets, barbecues, shared dinners and grill parties are prepared for each event according to its format and number of guests.
History and setting
The Péchy de Péchujfalu family is recorded in Hermanovce from about 1772. Franciscus Péchy and Barbora Bereczky commissioned the neoclassical manor and the Catholic church, the English park followed around 1800 and a domed mausoleum in 1818. In 1927 George and Klára Péchy built the hunting lodge, Lovecký dom, as a guest house for relatives from Budapest. Confiscated in 1945 and later used as schools, the estate fell into ruin. It returned to the family in the 1990s and was restored over about 25 years by Klára Szakall de Losonycz, a granddaughter of George and Klára. Manor and park are protected monuments, and the hotel is a member of Heritage Hotels of Europe.
Getting there
The address is Hermanovce 296, 082 35 Hermanovce. Prešov is the nearest large town, and Košice has the nearest international airport.
