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The landscape of the Tonnerrois is rooted in the rocks.
Gathered around those waters, all the houses there bear the marks of the quarries they are extracted from.
Flat stones : walls, half-buried caves, stoned grounds even those roofs that are sometimes still covered with flakes called ‘lava’.
The heritage has adapted its techniques of constructions to the materials which were available in the ground - in the forêt d’Othe region : flint rubble stones walls, coloured coating, brick frame and clamp, flat tiled roof and very designed fronts.
In the Tonnerrois region : chalky rubble stone walls, dry stone, thin or beurrés pointings, little coating , freestone framework, lava or flat tiled roofs. Austere fronts.
On the Terre plaine (Southern Tonnerrois) : bigger rounder and more coloured chalky rubble stone walls, little coating, freestone framework, lava or flat tiled roofs. Softer fronts.
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The stone "of Tonnerre"
The stone of "Tonnerre" was very successful in the second half of the 19th century thanks to the building of the Burgundy canal and the railway which made it easier to carry it. It came from the quarries of Ravières, Cry-sur-Armançon, Fulvy, Chassignelles, Lézinnes, Tanlay and Bierry-les-belles-Fontaines.
It was used as a material for some famous buildings in Paris : the City Hall, the pavilion of Tokyo, the Panthéon and the feet of the Eiffel Tower.
Nowadays it is especially used in facing for its aesthetic qualities such as its colour, its grain. You can indeed find it at the Opéra Bastille, at the Metropolitan Museum of New York or at the Ryad airport and these are only few of the prestigious places where you can find it.
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The small lively inheritance
The inheritance of the Tonnerrois is the memory of our history. Washhouses, chapel, water mills etc..;
All those edifices are traces of our lively past. The history of this cultural inheritance, to see how a oven worked, the visit of some villages are as many opportunities to be dazzled. 60 buildings have been renovated or enlightened throughout the European leader program of the lively inheritance of the Tonnerrois region.
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