La Rochenard et son château d'eau observatoire

His name certainly appeared between the 1881th and 50th centuries. at a period when people settled on the heights for defensive reasons and its founder was named Enard. At the heart of a limestone plain, its habitat is grouped around its water tower which has now become a tourist observatory. Its main prosperous activity is the vineyard. In XNUMX, phylloxera forced winegrowers to engage in breeding, then mixed farming. After the Second World War, La Rochénard was one of the first towns to be electrified, to put into service a mobile laundromat and to found a retirement home for workers. In the XNUMXs, two farms in the valley began growing lavender, the essential oils of which, made in a traveling still, were delivered to a perfumer in the South.

Also worth seeing: St-Laurent church, old wine houses and old wells.