House with Business (Tourist Attraction) Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Property Description

“La Cité des Insectes” is a private museum with house and gardens. The house includes guest rooms, sleeping up to fifteen. The property and the museum are for sale. Optionally, the property can be purchased separately, and receive an rental income from the museum.

The house and museum are set in a 8,000m² park. The house has a floor area of 300m², and the museum 660m², including outbuildings. The site benefits from a cultivated garden, forest garden, amphitheatre with 100 seats, pond, stream, two car-parks, a small theatre with a seating capacity of 50, vivariums with 12 exotic species, beehives, a shop, a snack bar and guest rooms ("Au bout des Mondes" - www.auboutdesmondes.com - with 5 guest rooms with 13 beds).

Based in New Aquitaine, the second most frequented French tourist region, in the Parc Naturel Régional de Millevaches which consists of 50% forest and more than 1000 bodies of water, and which is between 400 and 1000m above sea level!

La Cité des Insectes is an essential place to visit in the area; a cultural, educational and tourist site entirely dedicated to insects and their role in the environment!

The property is 13km from Lake Vassivière (http://www.lelacdevassiviere.com/). The Lac de Vassivière, one of France's largest artificial lakes, is a large man-made reservoir of about 10 square kilometres that you can get around by taxi boat, do water sports, sailing, fishing or just swim or sunbathe on the many landscaped beaches. On the island of Vassivière, in the center of the lake, there is the International Center for Art and the Landscape (http://www.ciapiledevassiviere.com/).

We are 10 minutes from Eymoutiers with its shops, cinema, swimming pool and the art gallery “Espace Paul Rebeyrolle” (http://www.espace-rebeyrolle.com/), another center for contemporary art.

1 hour from Limoges with its porcelain tradition and art museums, its airport, cinema & shops; 1h15 from Brive la Gaillarde with its airport, museums, cinema & shops and 45 min from Aubusson with its “Cité Internationale de la tapisserie” (https://www.cite-tapisserie.fr/).

We are in the village of Nedde (https://www.nedde.fr/la-commune/) with its 500 inhabitants, grocery store, primary school, baker, hairdresser, post office, restaurant and a holiday village receiving tourists from May to September.