Discover the Drouais heritage through its craftsmanship of the past century, its objects and documents, its tools, its living rooms of the 19th century and explore the troglodyte cellars of the 12th century dug by the Cistercian monks in the heart of the former Saint-Thibault priory.

 

Dozens of kilometers of galleries were dug in the chalk of the Drouais plateaus, to extract the marl used to amend the clay soils. From the 12th century, the troglodyte cellars of the Saint-Thibault priory had a very different destiny. 

 

For seven centuries, the Cistercian monks stored there "many vessels and casks filled with wine from Dreux", fruit of the tithe imposed by the church on the hundreds of Drouais winegrowers. 

 

Lined with Vernon limestone and pointed arches resting on Epernon sandstone corbels, these are examples of 12th century Romanesque architecture.