Wooden halls to house events and beautify the villages of Nièvre

The Christmas garlands which decorate the wooden hall of Saint-Martin-d'Huuille almost make you forget that it is already mid-January. “The hall is beautiful when it is lit up at night,” the mayor, Rémy Pasquet, warned us. But it was one afternoon that we went to see it, and it was then the sun was shining, barely warming the pretty village square and not managing to thaw the water in the fountain.

Residential village of 550 inhabitants, Saint-Martin-d'Huille was the subject of a major beautification operation, between 2020 and 2021. With a new village hall, green spaces, pedestrian paths, and a hall , which cost the municipality 20,000 euros.

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In recent years, wooden halls have grown in the public spaces of Nivernais villages. La Fermeté, 620 inhabitants, inaugurated its own in July 2024. “More like a kiosk,” says the mayor, Ingrid Grzeskowiak. Equipment measuring 25 square meters, costing 16,000 euros. “It was a project of the old municipality, which we integrated into a larger project to renovate the village square. » As in Saint-Martin-d’Huille. And like in Montigny-aux-Amognes.