Châtenay is located in the department of Ain and is part of the Dombes, a region near Lyon, to discover with its 1000 ponds, castles, gastronomy, recipes, golf...
Built on an ice mound, Châtenay takes its name castaneum "chestnut". Two rivers have their source: the Veyle southeast Biard Castle, and Old Rush east of the village. Known by written in the ninth century, the village passes into the hands of the lords of Beaujeu in the thirteenth century, and then in that of William of Juys. In the eighteenth, Maine Duke gives way to the family of Aubarède, who returned it to Mr. De Micod. It was owned by Joseph Ponchon the Revolution.
