THE FARMS OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Pierre Gire, a local child, and his father have been taking this village stone by stone with their own hands since 2005 to reconstruct the life of a traditional rural village from the end of the 15th century. They have drawn on more than fifteen years of ethnographic research concerning rural life in the Middle Ages in Xaintrie. Pierre is a former guide to the ruins of Merle and is passionate about the region Barn, thatched cottage, sheepfold, yet recent outings seem so realistic that visitors are bluffed. The buildings are built in granite and covered with rye straw or slate. Nine hectares of pasture, land, woods and gardens, are home to animal husbandry: pigs, chickens, sheep and even docile bees, making this space an object of archaeozoological studies, and a conservatory of plants inherited, like the angelica, from the Middle Ages. All of which will allow you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of life in the Middle Ages. A rich education for children!