DRY STONE HUTS OR TSABONES AT THE PLACE KNOWN AS LE CROUZAS

IN VALS-PRÈS-LE-PUY, HAUTE-LOIRE

Photos by Gérald Pinault


French version

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Tsabone with circular buttressing

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Front of a tsabone with two levels: 

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The same: the opening at the back

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The same again: downward view of the interior from the rear opening

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Small-sized tsabone under a chambée or agricultural terrace

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Tsabone overlooking an agricultural terrace

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Tsabone at the edge of parcel of land

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Andrieu's dry stone hut, the largest tsabone in the whole Crouzas area
(as many as 50 persons can pack into it)

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Tsabone surrounded by vegetation

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Tsabone in the midst of agricultural terraces

As can be expected, other places than Le Crouzas can boast having such-like huts or "chibottes" as scholar Albert Boudon-Lashermes used to call them : MONS, BEAUBAC DE POLIGNAC, COUBON, ESPALY, CEYSSAC LA ROCHE, TAULHAC, CHANCEAUX, LE MONASTIER-SUR -GAZEILLE, CHOSSON, LE PUY.

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The Velay winegrower and builder of tsabones


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To print, use landscape mode

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January 16th, 2006 - Augmented on March 30th, 2006

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