Is it a lair of elves or the headquarters of Swiss trolls?
On all sides, in the scree, at the edge of the torrents, along Dantesque escarpments and even in the heart of sleepy hamlets, one flushes out strange heaps of stones as if straight out of a tale by Andersen, even of the universe of the Smurfs: intricate houses, stables in the shape of rocky mushrooms, chaos of cyclopean blocks transformed into improbable "
palaces
of shepherds… A whole range of fantastical constructions is revealed, under and on the stones, transformed into makeshift shelters, forges, dryers or mills.
A litany of titanic or tiny devices, like so many ingenious architectural challenges, in particular coolers transformed into wine cellars, cheese factories, with their mossy walls and their dark staircases spinning towards the belly of the earth...
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