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| Dijonnais-Nord - Is sur Tille (21) |
| Between Dijon and where the northern border of Burgundy hits the Champagne region. |
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What you find within the Dijonnais-Nord section
Property prices in the Dijonnais-Nord area
Being near to Dijon city, prices are at a premium, but the further north you go the more atractive prices are. This is also where Burgundy4u is represented from its Boudreville office.
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Accessibility
Dijon is served with an excellent road and rail network. By road there are motorways passing through on each axis: the A31 links from the north and Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium; the A36 comes from Germany and Switzerland in the east; A6/E15/A31 comes up from the south, and the A38 links in from the west. Journey time to the Channel ports is 6 hrs 30, Paris is 3hrs, Amsterdam 6hr 30. Equally by train, there are TGV services linking in to Eurostar to Brussels and the UK with a total journey time to the latter via Lille of 5hrs 30. The TGV to Paris takes 1hr 45. Also services from Lausanne, Zurich, Besançon in the Jura and north to Nancy. By air, the TGV at Paris Charles de Gaulle provides a direct service to Dijon. Lyon airport is a 2 hr drive and Geneva airport is about 4 hrs.
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Dijonnais North
The north of Dijon it is well worth exploring. The area may not get the notoriety of the famous wine growing area of Nuits-St-Georges in the south, but there are a lot of pretty villages and some very lovely countryside north of Burgundy’s capital city. For the gourmet, this is mushroom and truffle country, the land of wild boar and venison. In the surrounding area there are some grand châteaux such as Fontaine-Française which is open to the public in summer and has a fine tapestry collection, Rosières, an upmarket chambres d’hôte, and other impressive privately owned estates such as Lux and Orain.
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Western Dijonnais North
Once clear of the metropolitan area of Talant and Fontaines-lès-Dijon, the villages such as Messigny-et-Vantoux and Saussy are populated by families who work in the city and who enjoy the woods and open fields of the area when they are home. Close to Dijon there is the golf course of Norges-la-Ville, and a very active flying club at Darois with light aircraft and microlights.
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Val-Suzon
This is Dijon’s hidden secret valley, sometimes known as ‘little Switzerland in Burgundy’ with Roche Aiguë rising to 600m. It is only 15 km north of Dijon city centre. To get the feel of the place, drive from the village of Val-Suzon along the D7 to Messigny-et-Vantoux, with the limestone cliff face, the gently burbling Suzon river, horses grazing and Charolais at peace with the world. Then put on the walking boots and explore the Grande Randonnée, GR2 route, home to badgers, wild cars, wild orchids and flora and fauna not to be missed. There are 12 villages in the Val-Suzon, once land of iron forges, some of which are now being preserved.
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Is-sur-Tille
The town of Is-sur-Tille is in truffle country. You can go on truffle hunting expeditions and each year in December there’s a grand festival with a market selling these little delicacies finishing up with everyone partaking in a huge truffle omelette. Is-sur-Tille is an attractive town, hub of shopping and services for the villages in the area. (If your French is up to speed and you are a crossword addict, the town also hosts an annual crossword festival.) |
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Bèze
One of the famous names in the dictionary of Burgundy wine. Records show that in 640AD the Duke of Burgundy gave the Abbey of Bèze an important wine domain in Gevrey down in the Côte d’Or, which remained the property of the church until the Revolution. The appellation Chambertin-Clos-de-Bèze is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the world. Today, the village of Bèze is an idyllic little spot on the river with the remains of the ramparts and a fortified church. Known for its underground caves, the Grottes de Bèze, with dramatically lit stalagmites and stalactites, a subterranean tour can be taken during the summer months. |
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