So what can England's players and supporters expect from Chantilly?

07 September 2015 20:17

England have decided to base themselves in Chantilly, just north of Paris, for their Euro 2016 campaign in France.

Here, Press Association Sport looks at what awaits Roy Hodgson's squad when they arrive at their headquarters next year.

1. Chantilly

The town is based in the Oise department in the valley of the Nonette in the Picardy region of northern France and has a population of around 11,000. Spain trained at the Stade des Bourgognes, home to amateur side US Chantilly, before their 1998 World Cup campaign and England are set to follow suit. Chantilly gave its name to a vanilla-flavoured whipped cream used for puddings and a handmade bobbin lace named after the city.

2. Chateau de Chantilly

It was home to the Princes of Condé, cousins of the kings of France, from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The Grand Chateau was destroyed in the French Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s while the Petit Château still stands from when it was built in 1560. It is home to the Musée Condé and houses one of the finest collections of paintings in France. It is open to the public and costs seven euros a person to visit and walk around the grounds, which includes three different gardens.

3. Horse racing

Chantilly's racecourse hosts Prix du Jockey Club every year with the race being named in homage to the English derby and jockey club based in Newmarket. The grandstand at Chantilly Racecourse was built in 1879 and mo re than 2,500 thoroughbred horses are trained in Chantilly at any one time - and these go on to form 70 per cent of the field at Parisian races. To continue Chantilly's horse racing links it is twinned with Epsom in the UK.

4 England's hotel

The Auberge du Jeu de Paume is located 35 miles from central Paris. It has 433 reviews on TripAdvisor. 282 of them are 'excellent' - with "elegant and comfortable" one of the reviews, however, 12 are ranked 'terrible' - and "overpriced, pretentious and abominably indifferent" was one claim levelled at England's hotel-to-be. It has a restaurant and fitness centre and rooms are available this week - priced at between £270 and £535 a night.

5 Other hotels

Fans wishing to spend time near the squad will need to save their pennies. Anyone wanting to stay at the Dolce Chantilly between next May and June will have to cough up £1,267 for 10 nights compared to £615 for the same time at Campanile Hotel Chantilly. Bed and breakfast at La Cantilienne, situated close to the centre of town, will set you back £1,172 for 10 nights next year.

Source: PA