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DRY STONE HUTS OR TSABONES AT THE PLACE KNOWN AS LE CROUSAS
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
Crousas 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
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. |
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The Velay winegrower and builder of tsabones. |
To print, use landscape mode
© Gérald Pinault - CERAV
January 16th, 2006 - Augmented on March 30th, 2006
To be referenced as :
Gérald Pinault
Dry stone huts or tsabones at the place known as Le Crousas in Vals-près-Le-Puy, Haute-Loire
http://www.pierreseche.com/tsabones_crouzas_engl.htm
16 janvier 2006
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