ou fontaine aux pois chiches. En effet, son eau était réputée pour faciliter l’attendrissement des pois chiches, lorsqu’on les faisait tremper, et donc pour les faire cuire de façon bien meilleure. Elle date probablement du XIXe siècle. Contrairement à beaucoup d’autres fontaines de la zone, son alimentation en eau provient non de la colline qui se trouve au-dessus du village, mais plutôt d’une mine d’eau (une galerie servant à drainer l’eau dont la pierre, le safre, est gorgée) se trouvant à proximité.

Guillaume Beckert – Association C.L.E.F.

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Chick Pea Fountain (Rue Louis Blanc). This fountain is known as «la font dei cese » meaning Chick Pea Fountain in Provençal, as it was well-known that when chick peas were soaked in its water they became particularly tender, and were very good once cooked. The fountain probably dates from the nineteenth century. Unlike many of the other fountains in this area, its water doesn’t come from the hills above the village, but from a groundwater well (a nearby gallery that drains groundwater seeping from the Safre stone).