Petite Cité de Caractère®
The village was built at the foot of a fort protected by two sets of walls. It boasts characterful houses, a communal well, the Chabotin Gateway and the forbidding home once reserved for the captain of the guard, at the entrance to the outer bailey, flanked by an impressive ten towers. The village’s winding lanes and overall circular construction might make you think that local life was wholly centred around the fort in centuries past. In fact, the place first developed around its church, in the hamlet of La Paroisse, c.800m from the rest of the village. This church of Saint-Cyr-Sainte-Julitte conceals an 11th-century Romanesque crypt, also known as the Cave Saint-Georges, as local winemakers took to storing their wine down there!
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