The Ranums' Panat Times
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to opening page of Ranums' Panat Times The village of Panat
See our collection of PHOTOS of Panat: A snowy day:
Panat en bleu-gris
and a frosty morning:
Panat engivré And finally, here is a brief slideshow of our house and Panat
Panat, as we argue below, was long protected from urban sprawl. Still, on Dec. 20 we received the following photo, which proves that our dear village has not been totally forgotten: a "Telethon" passed through it and the organizers posted this banner in front of Michèle Aussibal Maillard's house, just above ours: Wonders never cease!
One of the principal baronies of medieval Rouergue, Panat was protected from suburban sprawl by its position on a puy, that is, a limestone peak in the center of a valley. The village sits atop the puy, which rises high above the surrounding valley. The valley (with its beautiful dark-red earth and its red sandstone houses) is surrounded by limestone flatlands, causses, that are substantially higher than Panat. Panat itself is built of yellow limestone, although the soil is red. The colors used in this website evoke the lovely warm tones of Panat in the summer. Re: the picture gallery at the top of this page. It includes an early black-and-white postcard with Panat looming in the distance, and the full postcard (made for Count d'Adhemar de Panat in the early 1930s) which provided our logo. There are also a few of our own pictures. Of special interest: the picture of the house from the early 1960s, with its propped-up facade (quickly replaced by a cement slab to consolidate the house); and the restored facade of 2002. The garden scenes show how we spend our early mornings and evenings. During the hot hours we "muse" and "review" in the cool of our thick walls, the shade of our vine-covered terrace, or in the dense shade of a huge walnut tree in the garden. Back in July 2005 we organized a buffet campagnard in our wine cellar and invited the neighbors and all the people in nearby towns who had been so friendly to a young American family when it bought a ruined house in Panat. The party coincided with our Golden Wedding Anniversary! Three years after the fact, we are publishing the pictures of the buffet campagnard. And what do we do at Panat when not reading, gardening, or "musing"? View our slideshow of fun at Panat. |
