Stone architecture

The architecture of Villefort's old buildings is typical for one-street villages:• the houses with the two vaulted porches were once inns, tradesmen's or artisans' shops: one of the porches was used to store merchandise, the other to display it;• the sculpted lintels above the entrances to some houses on Rue de l'Eglise and Rue de la Bourgade bear witness to the activities of former occupants;• several facades have handsome mullioned windows from the Renaissance.