Autour du Montabon

A picturesque village with houses on the eastern slopes of the Vallée des Vaux, 9 km from Givry.
from Givry. Saint-Mard-de-Vaux is dominated by Montabon, a hillside wooded with chestnut, oak, hornbeam and locust trees (a variety of acacia). In addition to its wine-growing activities, the village has long depended on the forest, which covers two-thirds of its territory. This forestry tradition has given rise to the nickname of its inhabitants, the "Wolves". Over the centuries, the parish changed its name several times: Saint-Médard, Saint-Marc, Montabon during the Revolution, then definitively Saint-Mard-de-Vaux in the 19th century, "Mard" being a contraction of "Médard", bishop of Noyon in the 6th century.