Chapaize

Chapaize
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Chapaize
Chapaize Chapaize
Coordinates: 46°33′29″N 4°44′17″E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Saône-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Chalon-sur-Saône
Canton	Cluny
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	J Michel Cognard
Area 1	13.76 km2 (5.31 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	164
• Density	12/km2 (31/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	71087 /71460
Elevation	203–315 m (666–1,033 ft) (avg. 200 m or 660 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chapaize (French pronunciation: [ʃapɛz]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Sights

It features a Romanesque church built in the 11th century, in lombard style, surrounded by stone-built houses with the typical covered galleries of this region with a 16th-century watch tower. In the hamlet of Lancharre, there is a church of the 12th century, remains of a canonnesse's monastery.

Around Chapaize lie a large state and communal forest and two ponds. In the four hamlets of Chapaize (Bessuge, Gemaugue, Lancharre, and Chapaize), there are several laundrettes which were still used at the beginning of the 1950s.

See also

• Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department

External links

• Photos tagged with "Chapaize" at Flickr
• www.chapaize.org Archived 2009-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
• www.art-roman.net/chapaize.htm
• Pictures of the church
• Chapaize on the site Bourgogne Romane