Normandy, an ideal destination for business tourism

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With its many historic chateaus, farms, mills and manor houses, Normandy’s business tourism sector offers high-quality options for your business gatherings and meetings or team-building and training exercises. Boasting exceptional, fully-equipped, well-connected venues that can be adapted to meet all your requirements, we hope our top 10 destinations will incite you to do business in Normandy!

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La Ferme des Isles (Eure)

One hour from Paris, let your team fall under the spell of the Impressionists at the Ferme des Isles, beside the Eure River in the Eure département. This typical Normandy longère-style farmhouse and the warmth of your hosts quickly make you realise this is a splendid place to organise a business gathering, in the intimate red drawing room (for five people) or the barn (up to 15 people).

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La Ferme des Isles
27490 Autheuil-Authouillet

2.

Le Moulin du Béchet (Eure)

Your meetings and training sessions here might take place in the shade of the willow trees, accompanied by the babbling river and birdsong. The team at the Moulin du Béchet in Eure will welcome you and your colleagues with open arms, be it for an away-day study day, or an in-house stay. The venue oozes bucolic charm less than 100km from Paris.

Le Moulin du Béchet (Eure)
Domaine-7 © Moulin du Béchet

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Le Moulin du Béchet
27120 Croisy-sur-Eure

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L’Auberge de la Source (Calvados)

Set beside woods just 10 minutes from the port of Honfleur in the Calvados département, this upmarket hotel puts its reception room at the disposal of business gatherings. If  there are 15 or more of you, you can hire the whole hotel for your exclusive use, including the red-brick house, the half-timbered farm and the garden which boasts springs and other leisure and culinary pleasures.

L’Auberge de la Source (Calvados)
Auberge-de-la-Source-Entête © Collection Saint Siméon © Collection Saint Siméon

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L’Auberge de la Source
14600 Barneville-la-Bertran

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L’Atelier Pic (Calvados)

The Atelier Pic, with its mix of traditional, iconic architecture in the timberframe house and a clean-lined contemporary building besides, has a meeting room for up to 12 people, along with reception rooms with terraces opening up onto the garden. Just 15 minutes from Deauville in Calvados, enjoy this venue’s distinctive, relaxed atmosphere.

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L’Atelier Pic
14340 Bonnebosq

5.

La Ferme de La Rançonnière (Calvados)

This centuries-old manor-cum-farmhouse in the Bessin area in Calvados, less than 10km from the D-Day Landing Beaches, will enchant you with its beamed reception rooms which can accommodate from 15 to 80 people. La Ferme de la Rançonnière has just undergone a complete make-over, so you’ll appreciate the venue’s tranquillity to the full, whether it’s a day of teambuilding or a longer overnight stay.

La Ferme de La Rançonnière (Calvados)
Ferme de la Rançonnière - Entrée de l'hôtel © Ferme de la Rançonnière

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La Rançonnière
Route de Creully-Arromanches
14480 Crepon

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Château de l'Isle Marie (Manche)

In the heart of the Cotentin and Bessin Marshes Regional Natural Park in the Manche département, discover the Château de l’Isle Marie set in grounds marked by fine trees, creating a romantic and cosy atmosphere. The grandeur and peace of this spot, just three hours from Paris, will transport your team away from it all, allowing them to work together during tailor-made, in-house business gatherings.

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Le Château de l'Isle Marie
50360 Picauville

7.

The Domaine de la Guérie (Manche)

With its six reception rooms, the former priests’ training school, the Séminaire de la Guérie, beside the town of Coutances in Manche, allows you to put on all manner of events, from steering committee meetings for 10 colleagues to sit-down dinners for 200 guests. In addition, organic produce from the estate’s farm can be served at receptions you put on here.

The Domaine de la Guérie (Manche)
Domaine de la Guérie

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Le Domaine de la Guérie
50200 Coutances

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Hôtel Les Pins de César (Seine-Maritime)

Close to Étretat’s famed white cliffs in the Seine-Maritime département, the Hotel-Spa Les Pins de César is a cosy, upmarket address providing peace and well-being during a business stay. Whether a group of 10 working closely together in the chalet or up to 60 gathered in the Salle César, those attending your professional event will enjoy both the working environment and refined relaxation.

Hôtel Les Pins de César (Seine-Maritime)
Vue sur l'Hôtel Les Pins de César © Hôtel Spa Les Pins de César

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L’hôtel Les Pins de César
76280 Saint-Jouin-Bruneval

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The Domaine Le Clos des fontaines (Seine-Maritime)

In a meander in the mighty Seine, in the shadow of the soaring ruins of Jumièges Abbey in Seine-Maritime, Le Clos des Fontaines will appeal to those who appreciate holding business gatherings in calm, green venues. Here the country setting is both traditional and smart. The place can accommodate up to 25 colleagues and forms a kind of hamlet set around a garden with apple trees.

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Le Domaine Le Clos des Fontaines
76480 Jumièges

10.

The Domaine de Villeray (Orne)

The Hotel-Spa Le Domaine de Villeray in the Perche area of southern Normandy in the Orne département, two hours from Paris, offers visitors a discreetly elegant, luxurious stay. The two reception rooms in the mill, measuring between 60m² and 110m², and the château’s white salon (60m²) can be made at your disposal for business gatherings, for a day or as part of a longer overnight stay.

The Domaine de Villeray (Orne)
Domaine de Villeray ©CDT Orne

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Domaine de Villeray
61110 Sablons-sur-Huisne

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