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3. Cathédrale Saint-Etienne – Pont Valentré loop from Cahors

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June 3, 2024

From the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD, the Fontaine des Chartreux was a center of worship of Divona, goddess of the waters in the Celtic tradition, as evidenced by the Roman coins found during archaeological explorations

in 1989.

In the Middle Ages, a mill used the waters of the spring: the spring was ceded to the Charterhouse of Cahors and was known thereafter by the name of this religious order.

In the 19th century, some of the stones lining the pool were replaced by tombstones from the church of Notre Dame de la Daurade, destroyed in 1808.

Since 1853, when the Cabazat pumping station (now Maison de l'Eau) was put into operation, this Vauclusian spring, whose depth of 137 meters acts as a real filtering system, supplies the town with drinking water.

From 1926, electric pumps were installed in this building, right next to the Fontaine des Chartreux, and this is still the pumping station today.

The water is pumped into reservoirs hollowed out of the cliffs and then through pipes laid under the

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Location: Occitania, France

The Chartreux Fountain

1. Cathédrale Saint-Etienne – Pont Valentré loop from Cahors

2. Pont Valentré loop from Trespoux-Rassiels

3. Cathédrale Saint-Etienne – Pont Valentré loop from Cahors

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