Vacation Rental Description
Le Tilleul is ideally suited for two people with or without their pet(s) The ground floor has a white fitted kitchen along the length of one wall, the dining area has a solid oak table and chairs looking out over the garden and views down the valley. There is a
comfortabe lounge area,satelite TV( 4 languages) and wood burning fire, upstairs there is a large bedroom with a king sized bed and en suite shower room, consisting of a large hydro-massage shower. Towels and co-ordinated bed linen are supplied. From the huge garden, of over 2000M2 there are wonderful views over the “Monts du Morvan”. The house is built over a cellar so there are several steps up to the front door. At the start of the garden, there is a barn destined to be used as the garage for our client’s cars. The garden faces onto the village green and the cottage is situated well down the garden. The hamlet of Valouze consists of some twenty houses and it, along with the neighbouring hamlet are on a “cul de sac”, so there is no through traffic whatsoever. The hamlet is situated on numerous marked walking trails of varying distances. The hamlet of Valouze is situated in the commune of Chissey-en-Morvan at an altitude of 480 meters, within a fold of the mountains above the valley of the river Ternin. The Ternin joins with the river Arroux near Autun. The town Autun is twenty kilometers distant and of gallo-roman origin with 16,000 inhabitants.In October and November the forests of oak trees take on a lovely copper colour, in most years mushrooms can be found in abundance. In the Spring, around April and May before the first hay is cut, a walker can discover a multitude of wild flowers including several species of orchids and Lily of the Valley. The summers are never too hot but the winters are cold, with beautiful haw frosts and there is snow, most years.
Walks in the Morvan are rugged. A guide of the "Circuits de randonneés pedestre" can be found in the gite. On the ridge above Chissey walkers can follow, for several kilometers, the ancient Roman road which leaves Lugdunum (Lyon) and passes by Augustodunum (Autun) and turns North to Boulogne-sur-Mer and England.
At Mont Beuvray, forty five minutes from Valouze, there is a wonderful museum of Gallo-Roman antiquities. Autun possesses several impressive monuments, including the superb Porte d'Arroux which is a remnant of the Roman fortifications of 2000 years ago. The Rolin museum conserves the wonderful Roman mosaics discovered in the cellars of the old houses in Autun. One can find numerous chateaux, churches, cathedrals, abbeys and monasteries all within an hours drive. The little historic towns of Arnay-le-Duc is thirty minutes away, Saulieu is twenty minutes distant and within half an hour traveling time there is the chateau of Sully, where the cafeteria and boutique are open each day. An excursion to Paris can be made in a day, leaving from the train station at Le Creusot which would take only 45 minutes on the TGV. Dijon, the ancient capital of the Dukes of Burgundy is 70 minutes by road from Valouze and the famous vineyards around Beaune are an hour away.
For everyday living, shopping, banks etc, you can find all that you need in Autun. The open air markets there are on Wednesday and Friday mornings, the former being the smaller. In the village of Chissey there is a little cafe/shop/bakery open each day except Mondays, a post office and a restaurant, the Auberge Fleuri. Lucenay l'Eveque a little further on towards Autun and boasts a very good chemist, doctors surgery, veterinary surgery, hairdresser, baker/cafe, paper/souvenir shop, and on Tuesday mornings an excellent traveling greengrocer opens his garage doors for business.
