Lisbon, Jan. 16, 2025 (Lusa) - The Portuguese hotel group Onyria announced on Thursday that it has taken over the management and operation of the Château des Vigiers in France, in what it stresses is ‘a decisive step’ in its internationalisation.

The Château des Vigiers - a project in which the Onyria group had been a major shareholder since the 1990s - is located in France's Dordogne region, between Bergerac and Saint-Émilion, an hour and a half from Bordeaux.

It comprises a 16th century palace with 25 rooms, a second hotel with 40 rooms, a 27-hole golf course designed by Donald Steel and a Michelin-starred restaurant run by chef Didier Casaguana.

"As well as being major shareholders since the 1990s, we had a decades-long relationship with this luxury project to which we brought some of our experience and expertise. We have now fully taken over the operation and its integration into our portfolio, allowing us to once again have a top international presence," explains the Onyria group's non-executive chairman, José Carlos Pinto Coelho, quoted in a statement.

By including the entire management and operation of this unit in its portfolio, the Onyria group - which owns the Onyria Quinta da Marinha Hotel and the Onyria Marinha Boutique Hotel in Quinta da Marinha, Cascais - is taking ‘a decisive step towards internationalisation’.

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