Chapaize

Chapaize
Commune
The church in Chapaize
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 region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 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 4 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