The Summer Chalets

During the 16th century, to accommodate livestock during the summer, offer housing to the shepherd and the cheese-maker and to ensure the production of Comté cheese, solid chalets were built with all necessary equipment to handle livestock and transform milk into butter and cheese. They housed large stables, a small home and a room to make cheese, where the pot was suspended under the chimney. Today, some of these chalets have kept their pastoral function, by accommodating livestock, whilst others have disappeared or now serve as shelters, restaurants, holiday homes, etc.