19 and 20 September

September 2026

Saturday 19
- 08:00 - 21:00
Sunday 20
- 08:00 - 19:00

Moulins à eau

chemin de la Grande Fontaine 26420 Vassieux-en-Vercors

Drôme

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Visit the site of the Vassieux Watermills

Name: Visit the site of the Vassieux Watermills
Start: 2026-09-19T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-20T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Moulins à eau

Self-guided tour of the Moulins à Eau site in Vassieux

19 and 20 September

Mick Berthet essai de reconstitution

Self-guided tour of the Moulins à Eau site in Vassieux

September 2026

Saturday 19
- 08:00 - 21:00
Sunday 20
- 08:00 - 19:00

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Journées Européennes du Patrimoine

About the location

Moulins à eau

chemin de la Grande Fontaine 26420 Vassieux-en-Vercors

Drôme

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Obviously, the memory of these mills had completely fallen into oblivion. But the oldest inhabitants of the village remembered that the building that housed the large mill had served as a slaughterhouse until the war, that the serve (the tank that supplied water to the mills) had remained in water until the consolidation and that the women used to wash their clothes in the laundry of "the great fountain".
Intrigued by this information, the members of the association Vassieux and its heritage - VESPA decide to have the truth. In 2016, they began to identify the site and found it clearly visible on the cadastral map of 1830\. Some time later, they rediscover the remains of the large mill and begin to identify its walls. The remains of the small mill, on the other hand, have completely disappeared. Then it is the washhouse that finds its stones.
Today, the site has been completely cleared and it is accessible to everyone. Three panels designed to present the history and operation of the m

September 2026

Besuchen Sie die Website der Wassermühlen von Vassieux

Besichtigung der Wassermühlen von Vassieux

Visit the site of the Vassieux Watermills

Self-guided tour of the Moulins à Eau site in Vassieux

Visita il sito dei Mulini ad acqua di Vassieux

Visita libera del sito dei mulini ad acqua di Vassieux

Visitez le site des Moulins à eau de Vassieux

Visite el sitio de los molinos de agua de Vassieux

Visita libre del sitio de los molinos de agua de Vassieux

September 2026