Today Boisse-Penchot is a small country town where life is good, a real authentic village, a village traditions, a village with shops.
Several relics and symbols more or less visible and including Cross glassmakers are there to remind the industrial past of this village. Indeed, for over a century, the city Penchotine lived to the rhythm of the glass and the coal industry.
In the 14th century, a castle, and outpost station observatory of the river, was built to protect against the flow of invaders in boats ascended the trade route that was the Lot. Lot river was then an important way of transporting goods.
