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Les Petites Cigognes, 37240, Cussay, France
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About Us

At Les Petites Cigognes you can relax in the heart of France whilst having easy access to Paris, chateaux of the Loire, a wide variety of vineyards and many other attractions.

Les Petites Cigognes offers three self-catering holiday gites of the highest quality close to the Loire Valley and with a large heated swimming pool.  Our gites have the charm associated with a modern property whilst maintaining the key features of the stables from which they have been renovated.

Le Grebe log burner
Le Grebe lounge
Relax in the large, heated pool
  • After successful careers as a secondary school Headteacher and store manager for Marks and Spencer we planned to purchase a caravan and camping site but this all changed as soon as we saw Les Petites Cigognes.
    Central courtyard May 2006. It’s very different now!
  • We completed the purchase of Les Petites Cigognes in February 2006. At that time only Le Pluvier was in use; by the following July the pool had been installed and Le Grebe was ready for guests.
  • La Colombe opened for Christmas 2006.
  • Since then Les Petites Cigognes has become our home and we have welcomed guests from as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Colombia, Brazil, Russia, Poland and most other countries in Europe. We feel privileged to meet the wide range of people who stay with us.
  • As far as we can find out Les Petites Cigognes began in about the 14th Century, as a farm for a monastery which once existed a little further down the road from us. It also became a place to stop for the night for people travelling to the monastery and other nearby places.
  • From speaking to locals who knew the area, friends who as young children played on the farm, and also to a daughter of the last French family to work here, over the years Les Petites Cigognes has been a goat, dairy and an arable farm. In common with many farms we have seen evidence of rabbits and pigs also being kept.
  • During the first half of the Second World War France was divided into ‘Occupied’ France run by the Germans, and ‘Vichy’ France run by the puppet French Government. The boundary between the two parts is known as the ‘Demarcation Line’. This line ran mainly along roads which were guarded by the occupying forces.
  • The demarcation line ran along the road from Descartes to Cussay and so through the hamlet of La Cigogne. There is some evidence of the occupying forces being here on the farm as well as a memorial at the road junction to two local lads killed there in a skirmish with the occupying force.
    Killed 21 June 1940, remembered 22 June 2013 by family and friends. New memorial dedication.
  • For all that time Les Petites Cigognes was owned by the family in the Chateau next door but by the mid-1990’s the decision had been made and it was sold to an English family who started the restoration of the entire property. It is from these that we bought the property and have continued their initial plans.