Sainte-Croix after the lake

The rumors of the construction of a dam which would drown this generous land, caused the inhabitants to flee from the 1900s. It was not until much later that this project was born, the impoundment of this valley in 1973, spared the village. On the other hand, the remains of a Romanesque church and its crypt where, before 1792, a relic of the Cross of Christ (probably at the origin of the village's name) was buried, as well as 22 farms with ancient buildings.