Sarrant

Separated from the sober chapel of Notre-Dame de la Pitié and its cemetery by a wide boulevard shaded by plane trees, the village has as its main entrance a fourteenth-century vaulted gate pierced in a massive square tower, witness of the old walls protecting Sarrant. If the ramparts, taken over by the houses built into them, have partly disappeared today as the moats were filled in, the village has nevertheless kept its circular shape.

Inside the town, the main street is lined with tall stone houses whose upper floor, often corbelled, is made of wattle and half-timbering. In the centre of the circle, the parish church was rebuilt and enlarged after the Wars of Religion before being capped in the nineteenth century by a fine octagonal spire overlooking the village's very beautiful roofs. Outside the town, the school typical of the Third Republic's Jules Ferry school buildings faces peaceful gardens along which runs the stream that fed an old wash-house.

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