Discovery of ancestral know-how: dry stone construction

Name: Discovery of ancestral know-how: dry stone construction
Start: 2022-09-17T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Commune de Saint-Goussaud

Dry stone builders will come and give you a demonstration of the restoration of a retaining wall in the village. Come and discover this ancestral and contemporary know-how.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free.

©Coralie Bales

Builders will climb a wall 3 to 4 meters long with a corner chain at the start. This wall is part of a «hollow» path built a long time ago by peasants of the commune.
You can come and see them working on this site, open to the public, located behind the town hall of Saint-Goussaud. They will explain their profession and all the environmental advantages of this technique.
Sunday 18 September at 2:30 pm, a guided walk on the «small heritage» will be proposed to you.
You will discover a shepherd’s lodge, fisheries, many dry stone walls, remains of the work of the peasant-builders who worked in the town of Saint-Goussaud.

About the location

Commune de Saint-Goussaud

D57A1, 23430 Saint-Goussaud

Creuse
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The town of Saint-Goussaud is located east of the Ambazac Mountains, in the heart of the Marche Mountains, in the area traditionally known as the Saint-Goussaud Mountains. The origins of Saint-Goussaud are Gallo-Roman, as evidenced by the remains (ruins of a temple and a theatre) that can be seen on the Puy-de-Play (694 m), inscribed and classified as historical monuments in 1984\. In the seventh century a disciple of Saint Priest, bishop of Clermont, Gonsaldus (hence the name of the commune), who had become a shepherd, was said to have set up his hermitage there. After his death in 689, a popular cult developed on the site of his tomb. The holy man was invoked for the protection of cattle. The church of Saint-Goussaud dates from the late 12th or early 13th century. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1973\. Not far from the church, there is a lantern of the dead (12th century), 5.50 meters high, brought back from the old cemetery. The building was listed as a historic