Donezan is a mountain country whose economy has long been agricultural and pastoral. Its great remoteness within the Pyrenean range led its inhabitants to develop an autonomous economic system which alone could not support them all. The few agricultural surplus were swapped during the fairs or along a fragile trade exchange network for basic foods such as sugar, coffee, wine, salt, etc...). The territorial space still bears the signs of these old pastoral, agricultural activities : walls made out of dry stone, terrace sited mountain sides.

The spaces shaped by man also have housing destined to shepherds and cowherds : the huts and the orrys.

These frail dwelling places are the particular remains, everlasting witnesses of a harsh and difficult way of life, now vanished...

Let us learn how to read into the landscape which surrounds us and let us have respect for it.