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Bienvenue
à La Savonnière
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...a
few strides away from the heart of Sommières
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| A few miles from Montpellier, Alès, Uzes, and Nîmes,
Sommières is set in a garrigue-filled landscape whose deep green color
rises in tiers towar the blue sky. The winding roads are, here and
there, speckled with vineyards evoking a musical stave, or an undecipherable
handwriting. |
| These garrigues resemble the lines of Racine: a mineral
harshness made white-hot by the summer sun. Then, the perspective
enlarges/ widens, the hills' sensual curves replace the asperities
which tear the sky open. If the landscape keeps its green predominant
colour, on the horizon, the hills and the mountains get bluer and
bluer. Sommières hides somewhere in this blue hollow... |
| Along the Vidourle river, the Pastis and the river
overflow the terraces of the cafés and sometimes sweep aside all that
lies in their path. Once you have crossed the Roman bridge built during
the reign of Tiberius, you follow the road and you discover the entrance
of La Savonnière where the three cypresses welcome you. According
to the Languedoc symbolism when you plant a cypress at the entrance
of your residence, it means: "Hello, let's have an aperitif !",
two cypresses "Welcome, let's have an aperitif and diner !",
three cypresses "Hello, let's have an aperitif and diner and please
stay the night, our home is yours"… |
| The place is called La Savonnière because at
the turn of the last century, "les réboussiers", the people
who lived across the bridge, used to come here, to this washing place
to wash their linen…later this place would become a vineyard... |
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| My great grand-father was a wine grower that is to
say a countryman. He once told my father: " Son, you see: the more
you give to the land the more its gives you in return". This meaningful
sentence has gained ground…And is sensible for many things ! Each
day in this house, in this garden, I can sense the truth in the words
from this philosophical farmer… |
| Each tree, each plant, each stone has its secrets…They
will unveil it to you ! Especially in the morning, on the terrace
when you will have breakfast and when the sunbeams awake the garden
and precedes you in the transparent water of the Roman swimming pool
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| I am looking forward to welcoming you à la Savonnière,
a real home away from your home where you can spend a great holiday!
I will be delighted to give you advise on what to do or discover in
the area. |
| Best Regards, |
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Laurence Béthoux.
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