The truffole fountain

It was in 1540, in Saint-Alban d'Ay, that the first potatoes were grown in France, brought back from Spain and then planted by the Franciscan monk Pierre Sornas, who came to retire in the family home.

This tuber was called in patois “la(s) trifolà(s)”. The generic name to designate the potato was Frenchified in the XNUMXth century in “truffole” which still designates the plant today (the trifola) as well as a current production under a registered trademark by an association of local peasant producers.