A last ray of sunshine slips behind the gentle reliefs of the regional natural park and Unesco Global Geopark of the Causses du Quercy, to the west of the Massif Central. Before disappearing, it clings to the curves of two dry stone domes, placed on a limestone plateau high above the village of Gréalou (Lot).
With its rounded shapes and flat rock corbels, the construction emerges from the landscape as much as it blends into it, a contemporary version of the caselles, the shepherds’ shelters dotting this part of Occitania.
Under the vaults, clean-lined triangles house oak floors, just large enough to accommodate two sleepers each. Between them, a mineral lintel opens a door onto the panorama, revealing the Cantal mountains in good weather.
These two “stone tents” appeared on the causse in 2020. They were the first in a collection of refuge works of art scattered along the route of the paths to Compostela.
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