Conferences, corporate dinners with medieval, opera or Neapolitan shows, team-building programs and weddings take place at the Castello Medioevale, where the winter garden in the olive grove seats up to 300 guests at table. The castle stands above Castellammare di Stabia, on the Sorrentine state road, with views over the Gulf of Naples and Vesuvius.
Seminars and company events
The castle has several spaces equipped for conferences and business meetings. The team supplies sound amplification, projectors for images and video, room setups, a reception desk and participant registration. A catering service covers working breakfasts as well as lunches and dinners.
Company programs often combine work with entertainment. The castle organizes treasure hunts, cooking classes, themed evenings, dinner shows and gala dinners, and an evening can include a medieval show, an opera recital or a program of Neapolitan music. The office is open Monday to Friday, which is when to request a site visit or a proposal.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings use the gardens and historic rooms, with the gulf as a backdrop for photographs and dinner. A welcome cocktail can be served in the main courtyard, aperitifs and music on the garden terrace, and the dinner in the olive garden.
Rooms and capacities
The Corte d'onore, the main courtyard, has a limestone and piperno facade and a well dated 1380, and is used for welcome cocktails, medieval shows and flag-throwers. The Terrazza giardino looks toward the eastern tower and the Monti Lattari and hosts aperitifs and performances. The Secondo giardino has a 16th-century fountain and views across the gulf to Vesuvius. The Giardino degli Olivi, laid out on the former moat, includes the Jardin d'hiver, which seats up to 300 at table. Indoors, the Sala dei camini is a sequence of three rooms, one with a Renaissance fireplace dated 1447 and another with 16th-century choir stalls.
Catering
The castle provides its own catering service, from working breakfasts and coffee breaks for a conference to seated gala dinners and dinner shows in the evening.
History and setting
The Duke of Sorrento built the castle as a frontier fortress, and the name Castello a Mare appears in a document of 1086. It was transformed between the 11th and 15th centuries, adapted for artillery around 1470, and given its bastioned rivellino in the early 1500s, with walls up to 20 meters high in places. In 1459 its Catalan castellan handed it to the Angevin troops of John of Anjou, and in 1538 Castellammare passed to Ottavio Farnese as the dowry of Margaret of Austria, daughter of Charles V. Abandoned after the 17th century, the ruin attracted the painters of the Posillipo School. Private owners restored it from 1931 under Gino Chierici and again for twelve years from 1956.
Getting there
The castle is at kilometer 10.1 of the SS145 Sorrentina road, above the town of Castellammare di Stabia. Naples International Airport is the nearest airport.
