France, Loir et Cher, Bourré, La Magnanerie. A troglodytic site run as a museum where silk worms are bred.

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France, Loir et Cher, Bourré, La Magnanerie. A troglo site run as a museum. This is a place for breeding silk worms. Live worms and real cocoons. Called a magnanerie, silk worms were bred here in the caves into the 17th century. The Coquillat family has restored it and again breed silkworms here. It is not a commercial production. The family lives in a part of this huge complex of caves