Figs
Fig-tastic Delights: Exploring the Irresistible Figs of Vézénobres
The Fig Museum
This July 3rd, the fig museum was inaugurated in Vézénobres in The Gard. In the heart of the old castle Girard, a 200 m2 space traces the local history of this emblematic fruit of the territory.
In the Middle Ages, the economy of the city of Vézénobres is essentially based on the production of dried figs. Even today, vestiges of this commercial era are visible in the alleys. These are the calaberts, terraces covered and vaulted, exposed to the south, which served to dry the fig.
A forgotten time, the past fig of Vézénobres resurfaced in the 2000s with the creation of the conservatory. On two hectares, an orchard of a thousand trees includes a hundred species. This collection is the result of duplication of the National Botanical Conservatory of Porquerolles.
This medieval and fig tree heritage makes Vézénobres one of the emblematic corners of the territory which contributed to obtain a new regional label. The Cevennes have just been classified Grand Site of Occitanie.
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