1) Plate 1 : What does the "Two Poor Men" fountain represent?
Answer: 2 uncharitable shepherds turned into stone to help a beggar.
2) Plate 2 : Find the inscription on the 1st floor of the Amoudruz house.
Answer: "Charity, gentleness and union between neighbours has broken down all hatred and envy".
3) Plate 4 : What direction does the wind that usually brings rain to Vercorin blow from?
Answer: from the west.
4) Plate 5 : Is the slope of the roof of this raccard typical of all the buildings in Vercorin?
Answer: No, it isn't. Traditionally, it varies between 19 and 23 degrees, as rainfall is generally low in Vercorin. Here, the slope is around 45 degrees because the roof was built by carpenters from the Bernese Oberland, where the rainfall is higher.
5) Plate 8 : Is the pattern of the closed shutters identical to the pattern of the open shutters?
Answer: No (closed shutters: the rhombus symbolises the enclosed space; open shutters: the undulation reflects both the continuity and division of time, the cycle of seasons and holidays).
6) Plate 11 : Did you find the date the building was built?
Answer: 1739.
7) Plate 12 : What are the four traditional rural buildings?
Answer: the dwelling house, the shed, the barn and the attic.
8) Plate 13 : What was the purpose of the rings fixed into the wall at the foot of the post?
Answer: The rings were reserved for the five local councillors, who used them to tie up their animals.
9) Plate 14 : "SOLI DEO GLORIA" is the motto of the Jesuit religious order. What does it mean?
Answer: To God alone be the Glory.
10) Plate 16 : Why did we occasionally have to tap on the two boards that protrude from the south façade of the massive three-flat house?
Answer: To prevent cracks appearing in the floor (as the wood dries and shrinks).
11) Plate 17 : The wooden part of the house is not square with the masonry part. Can you explain this strange arrangement?
Answer: The wooded part (the only inhabited part) faces south, in search of light.
