Saint-Gengoux-De-Scissé: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Church of Saint-Gengoux has been documented since the 9th century. Its choir, bell tower and apse date from the Romanesque period. One of the chapels contains an 18th-century reredos with twisted columns. They frame a painting of Saint Gengoux as a Roman soldier holding a palm in his hand, with his helmet set aside.

Culture

The village’s character is shaped by the almost identical white-stone wayside crosses found in the village itself and in the hamlets of Bonzon, Poil-Rouge and Bassy. They are predominantly neo-Gothic and were erected by the inhabitants in 1858. The houses also reflect the typical Mâconnais style: the white limestone buildings have two storeys, topped by grain lofts with small square windows for ventilating the grain, as well as red-tiled awnings supported by two or three wooden roof supports.

In the village centre, near the Foyer rural and the “Le Vieux Logis” wine cellar, a historic “pressoir à grand point” can be seen. The press is eight metres long, four metres high and weighs almost ten tonnes. It was modified in 1869; some of its parts are probably several centuries old.

Wine and Landscape

The Saint-Gengoux-de-Scissé cooperative winery was established in 1925 and was the first to be founded in the Mâconnais. The Domaine de L'Aubraine consists of five hectares of vineyards and around ten hectares of pastureland. The estate also offers various group activities involving vineyards and horses.

The Grotte de l'Été is an underground site beneath the ridge between the hamlet of La Verzée and the centre of Saint-Gengoux-de-Scissé. From the summit of the hill, one of the finest views in the Mâconnais opens out over the Verzée valley.

Anyone choosing Saint-Gengoux-de-Scissé as a holiday destination may wish to rent a holiday apartment.

History

The former Notre-Dame Chapel in the hamlet of Bonzon is now privately owned; only the choir remains. The Tour de Bassy was formerly an estate belonging to Cluny Abbey and was severely damaged by the brigands in July 1789.

Other places: Dezize-Lès-Maranges, Saint-Rémy, Torpes, Issy-L'evêque, Gueugnon, Saint-Vallier, Artaix, Tronchy.

To the higher-level travel overview: Saône-Et-Loire.