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Village des Bories is an open-air museum of 20 or so
dry stone Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. Dry stone structures are stable because of their construction m ...
huts located 1.5 km west of the
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village of Gordes, in the
Vaucluse Vaucluse (; oc, Vauclusa, label= Provençal or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019. Village de Bories and has been open to visitors for a fee ever since. Its current owner and manager is the Gordes municipality.Official site of Gordes
. The site claims that the “Village des Bories” has been “inhabited continuously for something like 3000 years, with the bories dating as far back as the Bronze age” although the claim is not borne out by historical and archaeological research.


Gallery

Image:Villages_des_Bories_2_By_JM_Rosier.jpg, Western sub-grouping in Pierre Viala’s group No 2 Image:Villages_des_Bories_3_By_JM_Rosier.jpg, Group No 5 (as per Viala) Image:Village de Bories -2- 14.06.2007.JPG, Group No 3 (as per Viala) (from right to left: dwelling, sheep shelter, barn-cum-granary) Image:Door Bories By JM Rosier.jpg, Entrance of the store room of Group No 4 (as per Viala) Image:Inside a Borie By JM Rosier.jpg, Inside of the dwelling (now occupied by exhibits) of Group No 4 (as per Viala) Image:Village de Bories -3- 14.06.2007.JPG, Some of the exhibits: light swing-ploughs (or ards) and a harrow


Bibliography

*Pierre Viala, Le village des bories à Gordes dans le Vaucluse, Ed. Le village des bories, Gordes, 1976. *Christian Lassure, Problèmes d'identification et de datation d'un hameau en pierre sèche : le "village des bories" à Gordes (Vaucluse). Premiers résultats d'enquête, in L'architecture rurale', t. 3, 1979. *Christian Lassure, « Les Cabanes » à Gordes (Vaucluse) : architecture et édification, in L'architecture vernaculaire rurale, supplément No 2, 1980.


See also

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Cabanes du Breuil The designation Cabanes du Breuil () is applied to the former agricultural dependencies of a farm located at the place known as Calpalmas at Saint-André-d'Allas, in the Dordogne department in France. Dating from the 19th century, if not the very ...


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History and visiting information
* ttp://www.pierreseche.com/projection_gordes_intro.htm Les cabanes ou les Savournins Bas — alias « le village des bories » — à Gordes, en Vaucluse– with various plans, maps and photos of the site. {{coord, 43, 54, 27, N, 5, 10, 48, E, region:FR_type:landmark_source:kolossus-frwiki, display=title Vernacular architecture Monuments historiques of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Museums in Vaucluse Open-air museums in France History museums in France Huts