\b0 This medieval village is the only one in France to be built entirely out of red sandsto
ne, extracted from the large number of quarries in the region. Many of its houses are flanked by small towers, as a mark of the social status of their owners, high officials of the prosperous Viscounty of Turenne. A fifteenth-century interior has been re
constructed in the \i ôMaison de la sirΦne.ö\i0 The village also has a covered market housing the ancient communal oven and a fifteenth-century church that was fortified at the time of the religious wars that ravaged the province.\par
