Fley is a small rural town of about 250 inhabitants consists of two separate and remote villages near 2 km : the village and the hamlet of Rimont.
The town, the oldest part, is created on the site of a Roman villa near the road which allowed travel from Tournus to Autun. At this point, the path follows the contour, breaking the straight line by performing a " flexus " in Latin, a plausible explanation for the name of the town.
The hamlet of Rimont was built by the monks of the great Cistercian abbey of La Ferte in the 12th century to cultivate vines, producing their sacramental wine instead says " gariaudes ".
A thirty smallholders fifties succeeded four full-time farmers over large areas and some cooperators cellar Genouilly. An " urban-rural " population working in agglomerations Chalon or Creusot- Montceau and many retirees of the city or fields.
We are in the heart of Southern Burgundy, which offers walkers a variety of views on a gentle undulation : vines on the slopes facing south southwest meadows dishes with Charolais cattle, and in the few places where the limestone n ' flush not wheat.