If you come and stay in Donezan, in one of the seven villages, you will have all the time to observe a multitude of houses, sometimes very old, some of them dating back to the 18 th Century.

We are in the presence of a mountain housing which is quite common in Ariège : the house is narrow and all in height from the cowshed at the bottom via the living room in the middle and up to the hayloft at the top).

There is in Rouze a whole district composed of barns, there, you pass in front of it, if you go to the Vauban bridges. Hay was directly unloaded from the level of the road ; the house leaning with its back against the slope made this storage labour aimed at feeding the cattle during winter less hard.

In the Patrimony House, you can see a faithful reconstitution of the traditional housing of Donezan, now vanished.

Numerous houses still bear the marks of this ancient way of life ; in the image of the orrys, terraces and other marks left by man in the landscape, one has to learn how to see beyond the first plan, one has to let the mountains speak about the history of those who fashioned it harshly with their hands...

The district of the barns in Rouze - House of the 18 th Century in Mijanès