Discover La Guiche

La Guiche offers several possible travel themes: the landscape of the coteaux du Charollais, swimming, horse riding and hiking, as well as the late Gothic Eglise Saint-Jacques le Majeur. If you are looking for a hotel in La Guiche, it helps to first decide which of these aspects matters most for your trip. This lets you plan around a specific reason for visiting.

Landscape of the coteaux du Charollais

The coteaux du Charollais surrounding La Guiche form a picturesque, preserved landscape of extensive pastures, deciduous forests and hedgerows. Each element gives the landscape a different character: pastures open up the views, deciduous forests add wooded areas, and hedgerows structure the landscape. La Guiche’s bocage also includes ponds and drainage ditches. Visitors especially interested in the rural surroundings will find a travel theme of their own here, alongside the activities and the church.

Swimming, horse riding and hiking

Ecurie des Hauts de Cluny is a riding centre at Les Janins in La Guiche. If horse riding is part of your travel plans, check in advance what is available on your chosen date. Hiking in La Guiche is associated with the Foyer Rural. La Guiche swimming pool offers free-swimming or supervised swimming activities.

The Daniel Decerle indoor pool has a 25-by-8-metre pool, a relaxation area with massage jets and a solarium. It also has a children’s play area with a zip line and climbing frames for children aged 4 to 12. If swimming is important to your plans, check what is currently available for your chosen date; the programme may change.

Church and stone reredos

The Eglise Saint-Jacques le Majeur is late Gothic, dedicated to Saint James the Greater and dates from the 15th century. La Guiche’s church also contains a stone reredos—that is, an altarpiece—which apparently dates from the late 13th century. It measures 1.80 metres long and 0.65 metres high. Three trefoil arches depict Christ and the twelve Apostles. The two dates refer to different things: the church building and the apparently older reredos.

Getting there and choosing a hotel

As a rough guide, allow 1 hour 20 minutes by TGV from Paris, followed by 30 minutes by road. Connections and traffic can affect the actual travel time, so check the route for your travel date.

When looking for a hotel in La Guiche, you can rank your priorities according to the purpose of your trip: countryside, swimming, horse riding, hiking or church art. If swimming or the riding centre is essential to your plans, check what is available for your chosen date in advance. Then choose a hotel to suit your personal requirements and plan your journey around the connection you take.

Discover more destinations: Saint-Léger-Sous-La-Bussière, Laives, Sornay, Fleury-La-Montagne, Buxy, Charnay-Lès-Mâcon, Laizy, Sancé.

For the broader travel overview: Saône-Et-Loire.