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Welcome to The House at Le Gros Chigy

Spend your evenings in this delightful rural setting, planning for a day scouring the Bourgogne country side for history, wine and gourmet food. Download a beautiful, free pdf book of these surroundings in autumn.

Or for the more energetic explore the walking and cycling trails of the area, including the La Voie Verte - that's some 500 km of tarred cycling track and hundreds of kilometers of marked hiking paths.

The photographic mosaics of the house and its surroundings give a good idea of what you can expect.You can also browse a vacation rental style portfolio of the house here.

Click here for house surroundings and here for the house interior

Following these two links will give you a larger view of the mosaics, while clicking
on an image in that view allows you to view the individual images and to start a sideshow

photographs by ChigyTweeter
published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license

The house is a traditional Bourgogne village backing on to farmland on three sides with a medieval chateau a few hundred meters away that has been recently renovated. The renovation has Focussed on creating a light and colourful interior for the house with its limited windows and doors.

With Internet, local tv channels, mod cons except a dishwasher and a big garden you will be able to enjoy your rest.

The house on a 1300 m2 property is on the edge of Le Gros Chigy near Cluny in Burgundy, it's the quiet and rural surroundings that you will remember. The house looks over Charolaise pastures to the hill above Cluny in the far distance and over a few houses some 500m away to the medieval Chateau of Le Gros Chigy some 500 m away.

The house, which can accommodate up to 8 people, is available for € 620 a week.
We do have the house listed on Flip Key, Rural France, airbnb, Holiday Lettings and Perfect Places but you can email us using this link or call +27 82 451 0148 to make a booking or get more information.

Learn more about The House at Le Gros Chigy by following the blog here and check when its available to the right.

Description of The House

The main living area comprises living and dining areas in a large room the runs the width of the house. Double doors open onto an uncovered terrace which runs down into a small cherry orchard with 5 Cherry trees, planted in the 70s, that bear beautiful cherries and provide relieving shade on hot summers days.
The level up from the main living area houses 2 bedrooms, a bathroom and a toilet in recently completed areas under the roof.

photograph by ChigyTweeter

published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license

The level down from the living area houses a bedroom, bathroom and toilet while further down is the kitchen and main bedroom both of which are well above ground level. At ground level there are a cellar, a "summer kitchen" and a utility area which houses the oil burner for hot water and central heating.

• Main Bedroom - double bed, wardrobe and two bedside tables
• Joel's Room - single bed and child's desk
• Blue Bedroom - double bed, cupboard, bedside tables and lights
• Yellow Bedroom - double bed, cupboard, towel rack and bedside tables
• Upstairs Bathroom - bath, pottery handbasin, floor standing mirror and electric towel dryer and heater
• Downstairs Bathroom - shower and washing machine
• Living area - 16 place extendable dinning room table, 3 piece leather lounge suite, desk large CRT TV and small screen LCD TV
• Kitchen - large fridge, bar fridge, 4 burner gas stove with oven
• Garden - two garden tables, 12 garden chairs and 2 deck chairs

All rooms are fitted with shutters and curtains. You will have access to the fuel oil based hot water and central heating. These services, as well as water and electricity will be free of charge up to a reasonable base use after which you will pay for the quantities you use.

Where Is The House?

The house is on one of the seven nameless roads of Chigy. It turnsT into a track at the upper corner of the property and is closed some 400m further. The house is situated at 46.500964°N 4.556709°E and in the heart of Burgundy.

View The House at Le Gros Chigy in a larger map

While its not the objective to list all you can do in the area ( click here for the site's Things To Do page or use links to the right), these are a few quite well known towns/villages in the area:

14 km from Cormatin with a well restored Chateau

15 km from Taize the popular multi denominational religious village

16 km from the ancient religous history in Cluny

24 km from Brancion a medieval village on a hilltop

43 km from Macon situated in the Maconnaise Wine area

32 km to Montceau Les Mines where France's high speed train the TGV is built

105 km to Lyon which houses the closest international airport

Access to major towns is not a problem with TGV stations at Macon and Montceau and the distances not being too large. The distance of these towns from The House at Le Gros Chigy are

186 km to Geneva

392 km to Paris

571 km to Nice

But you are more likely to be coming to Le Gros Chigy for a more relaxed holiday visiting the countryside, villages and towns of the region to soak up the life.

photograph by ChigyTweeter

published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license