Le lavoir de la Baume

A dandy and patron of the arts from the Barons de Castellane family, Boni was elected deputy for the Basses-Alpes region from 1896 to 1910, and his donations were frequent. Here, however, it was the sale of a church in Castellane in 1908 that enabled the construction of the washhouse, along with other waterworks in the surrounding area: fountains, sewers and cisterns! The sober washhouse, built of local stone, has had very little time to be worn down by washing.