French version

Tsabone with circular buttressing.

Front of a tsabone with two levels.

The same: the opening at the back.

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

Small-sized tsabone under a chambée or agricultural terrace.

Tsabone overlooking an agricultural terrace.

Tsabone at the edge of parcel of land.

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

Tsabone surrounded by vegetation.

Tsabone in the midst of agricultural terraces.

As can be expected, other places than Le Crousas 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.

The Velay winegrower and builder of tsabones.