Discover our Special Events at the Chateau

• Sunday, 1st of May 2011 : exceptional opening of the Chateau for visits during the fourth "Journees des Chateaux d'Auvergne" organized by the Route Historique des Chateaux d'Auvergne : the owner will guide you every 1h30, from 2 to 6.30 p.m. and let you discover the defensive system at the Middle Ages, thanks to an unusual tour : the keep, the moat, the guards' hidden staircase, the rounds way and the Guards room.
  

• Sunday, 15th of may 2011 : exceptionnal opening of the Chateau for visits from 10.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., during the « Spring of Saint Saturnin » organised by the village together with l' « association des Plus Beaux Villages de France » in the Auvergne.
  
  At the end of the tour, see the Marion Janin drawings exhibition : 40 original's created for the illustration of the book « the Silences of the stones » she created together with Philippe Barbeau. Possibility to meet the artist.

• Friday, 3rd of june 2011 : concert at 5 p.m - free entrance - by the oboe bands of Clermont-Ferrand and Mulhouse playing Elgar, Gabrielli, Mozart, Dvorak, Thuri, Haendel and Bach.
  

• 9th of june 2011 : encounter at 8.30 p.m with the famous american writer Pete FROMM already translated in french - reading, discussion and signing of its books. This event is organised in collaboration with the Independant Bookstores Reunion and Nattittude -a network of charming guesthouses.
  

• Some sundays of July and August 2011 : Unusual tours on the defensive system at the Middle Ages - see VISITS
  

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2011: concert at 9 p.m by the "Quatuor Prima Vista", playing quatuors by Onslow, Mozart and Haydn. This concert takes place as part of the 10th anniversary of the "Onslow Evenings in Auvergne" as organized jointly with Route Historique des Chateaux d'Auvergne. The Quatuor Prima Vista has been having a residence in Clermont-Ferrand for 12 years and contributed to the revival of Georges Onslow, a local composer and one of the most important ones of Beethoven's times.
  
  

• From 3rd to 11th of September 2011, as part of the, as part of the Jours des Lumières de Saint Saturnin:
  - Village meal at the castle on saturday evening - 3rd and 10th - and sunday lunchtime - 4th and 11th.
  - Exhibition of the sculptor Tetsuo Harada in the castle's gardens.
  

Discover also the different activities organized around us.

Activities nearby Saint-Saturnin