You will soon hear talk in all media of an extraordinary area in Aveyron near Bozouls. A magical place to organize weddings and great festivals in Aveyron. This is the castle of Majorac!
This is the story of a meeting. The meeting of a passionate couple. A luxury landscape designer in Paris, Didier, and his Scottish wife, Veronica, director of a large brand of prêt-à-porter on the Champs Elysées. They have a common project: find in “the world of silence”, far from Paris, a special place to create a bed and breakfast.
Following the sale of his company of 35 people, Didier activates his research and visits with Veronica more than 150 properties in the southwest and west of France. They submit an offer to our agency for a completely renovated domain in the area of ??Peyrusse-le-Roc in Aveyron. This property already sold by us in 2013 had been renovated then elected "favourite house of the French people" in the program of Stéphane Bern on France 2 in 2016. The offer does not succeed.
Then, we take the domain of Majorac for sale! Initially the estate was owned by an ambassador, a great servant of the state. There, Jews and resistance fighters would have been hidden during the war.
Didier and Veronica come to visit on the 21st of April, 2016. They do not know it yet but it will become an anniversary date. Before the visit, we share a breakfast at the famous restaurant nearby, the "Belvedere". On the menu: oysters, breads, sausages, and other unusual dishes at this time of the day.
They fall stiffly crazy from this house so typical of the Aveyron, but also the site with its view of the forest of Palanges, and the mountains of Aubrac. The stars’ landscape designer is charmed by this terraced terrain lined with dry stone walls. An offer is quickly formulated and accepted and the act is signed in September 2016.
The domain is in its juice with its original character elements. The roof of the main house has been redone, and a new boiler has been installed. Didier and Veronica decide to turn the place into bed and breakfast. Then, the ideas fuse, the project germinates and grows.
Majorac will become 5 star cottages. The heating will be in geothermal with a drilling of 100 meters, and all the roofs will be redone representing more than 3000 hours of work. The outbuildings will be converted into a reception room with a built extension of 250 square meters to accommodate more than 150 people. A car park will be created for 80 cars generating more than 1000m3 of embankments reused by Didier in his landscaped garden. An infinity pool will be installed from 5 by 19 meters with “of course” its pool house. In total, more than 1400 m2 of built-up area will be fully renovated or constructed, meeting ERP standards.
Since November 2016 all trades are busy. Mouysset from Bozouls for the frame, Vayssettes, blacksmith in St Chely d'Aubrac, Taquier, roofer of the commune, or Charrier carpenter in Espalion, and many others.
Didier and Veronica live in the yard since day one and this, for 7 days a week. They help with the task, and prepare food for the teams. They could have rather bask on beaches in the sun, but these two passionate have preferred to invest their savings, the fruit of 35 years of hard work to revive Majorac.
When we listen to them, it is not a construction site, but a work. Create a place with beautiful materials, with an irreproachable finish, but above all a beautiful and reassuring place that favours the views. A place of silence and healing. A simple place, true and touching.
The first event is scheduled for the end of summer 2019. The teams redouble their hard work to meet the deadline. The challenge is launched. Will they be completed on time? How many adventures are still waiting for them by then? We will be pleased to tell you the rest of this enormous project on the occasion of the release of our next brochure.
