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Essential to life, water irrigates, fertilises and quenches thirst. The fountain was once at the heart of village life. Every day, women came to fetch water, which they carried in jugs or buckets balanced on their heads. As a meeting place, it allowed for exchanges and conversations. The washhouses keep the memory of the hard chore of washing. It took several days to wash the largest items such as sheets. The laundry was boiled in large cauldrons. Sifted ash, a natural detergent, was added to the water to clean and purify. Then they were rinsed and washed in the laundries. The precious water was channelled to irrigate the gardens whose vegetables, especially beans, onions and potatoes, made up a large part of a family's reserves. Long canals or simple gutters carried the water from rivers or springs to the garden beds. Ponds stored it. Often, in the villages, one had to wait one's turn to water. Lots were drawn and some were forced to water during the night. The mills are spread out along the watercourses. Just above the fountain, at the edge of the road, you can still see the canal and the water reservoir of one of them. The force of the water activated the millstone, an example of the most common systems in 18th and 19th century Corsica. Further down, the canals of the large paddle mill, u Fragnonu, have been restored and bear witness to the complex system of water networks that ran through the countryside. From canals to terraces, from gutters to basins, the hillsides, the slopes and valley bottoms were sculpted, arranged and structured in order to allow crops to be grown.

Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano

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