Gironde village of Sainte-Croix-du-Mont rests on astonishing cliffs of fossilized oysters. The history of this extraordinary site began 170 million years ago.
The last visible face of these walls is hidden in the chapel of the former home of the Gironde deputy Pierre de Rosteguy de Lancre (1553-1631) “Between the oysters there is only earth and sand. This holds together because they are intertwined,” explains David Sony of the Histoires de Pierre design office.