Prêt pour la rénovation et un avant-goût du style de vie souterrain … Les maisons troglodytes délabrées et délabrées coupées en falaise calcaire de la rue Victor Hugo à Amboise, Vallée de la Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France, offrent de difficiles défis de rénovation, mais aussi des opportunités d'investissement comme deuxième maison, location de vacances ou trou d'été. L'intérêt renouvelé pour la vie troglodyte a entraîné la conversion de milliers d'habitations troglodytes le long de la Loire en maisons d'été, locations de vacances, caves à vin, fermes de champignons, musées et restaurants.

• Contributeur: Terence Kerr / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2FKBYAD
• Taille du fichier: 28,7 MB (2,2 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 2592 x 3872 px | 21,9 x 32,8 cm | 8,6 x 12,9 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 7 avril 2007
• Lieu: Rue Victor Hugo, Amboise, Loire Valley, Centre-Val de Loire, France.

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Amboise, Loire Valley, Centre-Val de Loire, France: ready for renovation and a taste of the underground lifestyle … this derelict and dilapidated abandoned troglodyte dwelling cut into a limestone cliff beside Rue Victor Hugo offers a tough refurbishment challenge – and perhaps an investment opportunity as a second home, holiday rental or summer bolt-hole. For at least a thousand years, people have lived in the caves they cut in the soft and easily-worked rock faces, cliffs and slopes of the Loire Valley. Families would quarry the stone to sell it and then use the caves as low-cost living or working space. The caverns offered good protection from the elements and had the added advantage of staying at fairly constant temperatures around 12 degrees Celsius, making them all-year habitats providing warmth in winter but staying cool in summer. Widespread quarrying of the limestone tufa or tuffeau began in the 11th century. Most of the caves were inhabited until the early 20th century and although some, like this example, are now disused and decayed, a surge of fresh interest in recent decades has sparked historical research and prompted new generations to try the troglodyte lifestyle. Thousands of caves are now used as dwellings, summer homes, tourist rentals, wine cellars, mushroom farms, museums, restaurants and chapels. Some are a warren or small rooms while others are no more than a single cell. D0268.A3198

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