Saint-Satur : Huile sur toile format 81 X 65 cm - Saint-Satur : Oil on canvas format 81 X 65 cm

 

Saint-Satur compte environ 1800 habitants, elle est en population, la deuxième commune du vignoble de Sancerre.

Signe particulier, son viaduc, par lequel pendant la guerre de 1914-1918, les trains remontaient jusqu’au front, l’armement produit par les femmes, dans les usines Bourges (50km). Du chemin de fer Il ne reste que les gares...

Imaginez une locomotive crachant son nuage de fumée en franchissant le viaduc de Saint-Satur !


Population of Saint Satur is about 1 800 people, which ranks it just below Sancerre at the second place of the Sancerre’s vineyard.

Its viaduct in particular was the rail road to the front for trains coming from Bourges, during World War 1. Trains carrying ammunitions produced by women in Bourges’ factories (50 km away) were passing on the bridge. The rail road track has been removed ever since. Stations are the only constructions left nowadays to witness the past. Imagine a steam locomotive

passing on the viaduct of Saint Satur !