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Historical Path in Pinsec

Introduction to Pinsec Due to its location, Pinsec is the only village in the valley that went through the twentieth century without experiencing significant changes.	Pinsec and the religious Chapter Around 1300, the village whose name was written Pessey, Pense, or Pensey, was a special case in the history of Anniviers.	Post 1. Bread Room The bread room is on the second level of the building which, even today, allows ten persons to make handcrafted bread. The furnace, located outside, can...
Post 2. Farmhouse Until the twentieth century, three families lived in this house. On the façade, we see the date 1783. On each floor there was a kitchen and a room.	Post 3. Pigsty This small rudimentary building once housed the pigsty. Look to the left of the door, the wooden basin, called the bourlett in dialect was where food for the...	Post 4. New village wine cellar In 2011, the « Société du village » of Pinsec inaugurated itsnew jewel : a wine cellar in the purest tradition.
Post 5. Old Goat Pen The small building that now houses the village hall, was once a pen for goats and sheep, called partières in dialect.	Post 6. House with painted décor This old house has very interesting wall paintings. Observe the facade. On the top floor, there is a carved frieze, partly stenciled while the eaves are...	Post 7. Old Village Café This building is of no particular interest in terms of the builtheritage, but is of great importance in the memory of the villagers.
Post 8. Chapel of Saint-Symphorien The chapel of Pinsec is dedicated to Saint-Symphorien, the martyr who, around the year 180 AD, was beheaded because he had confessed his Christian faith to the...	Post 9. Basin This cement basin located east of the chapel dates from 1919. Behind the basin in the building of the chapel there are two private cellars. Formerly, the basin...	Post 10. Old bread oven The furnace was operating in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, probably until 1912, when a new oven that is still used today was built.
Post 11. Old School The building, surrounded by barns and granaries, housed the school of Pinsec until 1965. It was in 1927 that the old town bought it for about CHF 700.- from...	Post 12. Trasformed raccard This raccard, like the majority of granaries and barns of the village, was transformed into a secondary residence.	Post 13. Raccard The raccard was used to store rye, wheat and other cereals. Its construction, which dates back to 1700, was less precise than the « grenier » because the...
Post 14. Mule Stable This mule stable is the only existant example in Pinsec. In the 1950s, there were a dozen mules in the village. At the time, the mule was a method of...	Post 15. Old Cellar On the ground floor of the small building adjoining the stable there is a wine cellar, an example of all the good old cellars of the village that kept the wine...	Post 16. Grenier / Granary This grenier, like all the others, belonged to different owners. Based on available space, close to the houses, granaries were raised and placed on large round...
Post 17. Barn-Stable (Grange-écurie) This barn was once destined to cows. The barn for cows was in general quite small, its surface ranged from 20 to 25 m2. It could house a dozen animals.