The importance of water in dry Southern France is obvious. Villages often keep a fountain or a wash-house, carefully maintained or restored. These cool refreshing places are much appreciated by walkers or cyclists during their tours. Here is a selection of these buildings but there are many others to be discovered.
Marsanne - Belfry and wash-house
Roynac - wash-house
Marsanne - Fountain of the Obelisk
Marsanne - Les Bastets - Fountain
Saint-Gervais - Fountain
Charols - Built-in basin outside of church
Sauzet - wash-house
Saint-Marcel-lès-Sauzet - wash-house
Cléon d'Andran - wash-house
Roynac - Fountain
Wash-house built in 1904 with a donation from Emile Loubet, President of the French Républic, and born in Marsanne.
Saint-Marcel-lès-Sauzet - Fountain
La Laupie - Public well
Charols - Well
Marsanne
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