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Origin and history

The Varetz Pigeon is a massive rural building built in Collonges red sandstone and covered with a half-croup slate roof. Probably dating from 1769, it illustrates the typical agricultural architecture of the Brive basin. Its structure, entirely made of stone, is 5.60 meters wide for 5.80 meters above roof. A stone cornice delimits the upper part, dedicated to the dovecote built in the attic.

On the eastern façade, bolts and a wooden window provided access to the pigeons. The first floor, for its part, probably housed a shed, a cellar and a henhouse, as evidenced by the three holes dug in the pillars, intended to serve as nest boxes for hens. This monument now depends on a farm whose home was rebuilt after a fire in 1896.

The pigeon-pig was registered in the Historical Monuments by order of 4 October 2010, in full, including its architectural elements and its immediate environment (cadastre D 148, placed Le Four). Its location, at the 3 Chemin de Fondzailles in Varetz, makes it a preserved example of limousine rural architecture, integrated with the heritage of New Aquitaine.

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