Information on Guided Tours in the Area

Also available from the Cluny Tourism Information Office website is this brochure of guided tours in Cluny and Clunisois.

from: Cluny Tourist Information
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The guided tours are for groups rather than individuals and cover a wide variety of subjects including wine tasting, meals, cheese tasting, berry picking, lavoirs, crafts, churches, chateaus, gardens and old Cluny houses. They operate in places such as Taizé, Cormatin, Chapaize, Brancion and Berzé-the-city as well as Cluny.

I have not been on any of these guided tours, but its probably true that you can gain much by knowing more about the place you are visiting and a guided tour is an easy way of doing this.

Now an Up To Date Photo of the Chateau

After blogging that I would take a comparable photograph next time I am in Le Gros Chigy (seems like that is probably going to be May) a friend from nearby Buffières went out ant took the photograph below on the 8th March 2011.

photograph by A Friend From Buffières

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A great shot of the chateau from very close to where the postcard was taken all those years ago! The modern camera gives a more realistic perspective and much more detail

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The Chateau Across The Road From The House at Le Gros Chigy

I guess you've seen it from a different angle in quite a number of photos on this site and you surely couldn't miss it if you visited Le Gros Chigy.

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Here's the only shot of the chateau I can find in my photos.

photograph by ChigyTweet

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Its from the Salornay - Cluny road so very unclear and from a different angle. So next time I'm in Le Gros Chigy I'm going to try and duplicate the card, and post the two pictures side by side.

What to do - Bissy sur Fley & Cafe Papyllon

Please note that Le Papyllon has moved to Cormatin - see my recent post.

This is one of my favourite places to visit, just 26 km from the house, there's a beautiful Romanesque Church and a Chateau to view and after that a cafe with more than 110 different beers for sale! Even on a wet day like the one when the photo below was taken there's a warm conservatory where you can enjoy a great beer.
WOLFGANG SCHMIDBERGER, the owner, doesn't simply rely on distributors to deliver beer but goes on his own collection trip to breweries, to try and provide as fresh beer as possible. Wolfgang also tries to serve the beer in the marked glasses of all sorts of shapes and sizes available from many of the breweries as shown by the photos below from the website.
website: http://monsite-orange.fr/papyllon.com/page2/index.html
phone: 0033-385 492 191
address: unnamed street
GPS: 46.6631338764, 4.6206968185  /  46°39'47.28"N   4°37'14.51"E
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