The Ranums' Panat Times
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The Ranums' Panat Times
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to opening page of Ranums' Panat Times The village of Panat
or consult transcribed documents about Panat
BRAVO! The restoration of the roof of the castle is just about finished. Our neighbors, the Viguié, sent us this picture in mid-May 2009
Click here to view some pictures of our house at Panat, 1963 to the present
NEW: We are starting a new set of pages that show the patrimoine of Panat, some of it lost, some of it hidden, some of it restored See especially our collection of PHOTOS of Panat: A snowy day:
Panat en bleu-gris
and a frosty morning:
Panat engivré (We have deleted a malfunctioning photo gallery with recent photos of Panat and will rebuild the gallery soon!)
Panat, as we argue below, was long protected from urban sprawl. Still, on Dec. 20, 2007, we received this 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. |
