This interesting brick oven is one of several tourist attraction of Sarténe, small medieval town in Corsica inland.
Renovated oven is displayed on its original public place - small square, where it used to serve for all the people from neighborhood.
We can think of several advantages of one, communal oven for baking in the past - less consumption of wood / coal that was rare in this area, less risk of dangerous fires, oven as a centre of social life in community and others.