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 The village Saint Victor la Coste offers the opportunity to walk back in time. The old neighborhoods, once separate hamlets, with their narrow winding streets, tell of a time when the wealth of the village came from working the surrounding lands. The houses show this past activity in their many wide doorways that once opened to farm carts full with harvest, and in their beautiful vernacular architecture made from the local limestone.
 The industrial 19th century is visible on the town square and in the village's principal avenue that crosses it, which for a long time was called the "New Road." The square was build in the typical style of the period, inspired by urban architecture, with an esplanade shaded by plane trees The town hall with its neoclassical facade was built on a raised platform with twin stairways, watching over a fountain below an obelisk dedicated to the metric system. All tell of a period of genuine prosperity, when the villagers were developing the production of wines, rearing silk worms, and profiting from the lignite quarries and great expanse of woods on the village territory. |
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