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Château de Gudanes
2 Route de Beille, Château-Verdun, Ariège 09310, France
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A French Château ExperienceAriège · Pyrénées
Where History Comes Back to Life
A restoration followed the world over, and a few rooms opened to guests.
Or the full experience: a retreat of three to seven nights, every meal and drink includedOr the full experience, three to seven nights See the retreats
La pleine expérience The château in full
Built in 1741, very nearly lost, and now coming back to life. A workshop retreat lets you live inside it for three to seven nights: all meals and drinks, the brocantes, the kitchen, the valley, a candlelit dinner in the Salon de Musique, and the run of the château with a small group.
Every workshop
An eighteenth-century château in the French Pyrénées, under restoration since 2013. In 2016 the restoration received the Medal of Honour of the Fondation Prince Louis de Polignac, presented by Prince Albert II of Monaco. Come for a night, or for a retreat.
L’art de vivre The art of living
The Gudanes Experience
There is a particular pleasure in waking in a château like this: light across old stone, the valley below, and breakfast waiting. The days are slow here by design, with the pool, the grounds and the mountains on every side.
Nothing is staged. The château is lived in while it is brought back. A night here is your room, breakfast in the morning and the lounge to come back to.
Vu d’en haut From above
The château above its terraces, the formal garden and the pool below, and the mountains all around.
It is a restoration, not a renovation: the walls stay as the centuries left them, protected by law. Within them, each room mixes antiques found at the brocantes of the valley with what has to be new, the beds and the bathrooms, so the château feels lived in rather than furnished.
La restauration The restoration
Before
NowThe dining room: once empty enough for a horse.
Bought as a ruin in 2013, the château has been brought back room by room, privately funded, with no grants.
Two ways to stay
Stay the Night
One night or more
A Workshop
Three to seven nights, per person, all meals and drinks included
Les plaisirs The pleasures
Sleep well
A new bed in an old room, breakfast in the morning, and the lounge to come back to in the evening.
Come and stay
Pull up a chair
On a workshop every meal and every drink is included, and one evening ends in the Salon de Musique, by candlelight.
Discover the full experience
Watch it come back
Since 2013 the château has been brought back room by room, privately funded: what has been done, and what is still waiting.
See the restoration
Wander the valley
Markets, brocantes, castles and mountains, all within an hour, with the pool and the tennis court for the afternoons.
Go exploring
Celebrate here
One wedding or gathering at a time, with the whole château given over to it.
Tell us your plans
Mariages et fêtes Weddings and celebrations
The whole château, for a wedding or a gathering of your own.
Up to forty guests inside, more under a marquee in the grounds, and fifteen to stay the night. We look after the flowers, the meals and the drinks.
Each morning I woke up worried that it was only a dream.
Spacious rooms with private, well-equipped bathrooms
After years of careful restoration, the owners brought it back from a ruin. The atmosphere is warm and not spooky at all.
The Journal
What comes out from under the plaster, which room opens next, and when the workshop dates are released. Sent when there is something worth sending.
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« On ne restaure pas un château. On le laisse revenir. » A château is not restored. It is allowed to come back.
The rooms are few. If a date suits, take it, for a night or for a workshop.
Monument Historique · Classé A Class I Historic Monument, restored under French heritage law since 2013