Sillans-la-cascade

Hidden in a bosky bower the village keeps by certain aspects its medieval character.

Tightened around the Castle its lanes curve with the liking of the more or less old houses. The visitor will fall under the charm from its quiet lanes which seem to wait until a magic operates and releases from its thousand-year-old sleep its old stones which would have to tell us so much.

Left a long time in an abandonment languide the antiques masonries find their gloss passed thanks to newcomers who have had the love at first sight for Sillans.

Of course they could not speak about the village without quoting his famous cascade. Who would believe by it seeing whether serene that our river Bresque, suddenly meeting a bench of tuff the top of which it precipitates of 42 meters, would form a so beautiful cascade.

Road, a way bordered of plane trees centenaries as well as the ruin of an old mill are neighbourly with the green carpet of a broad meadow. The path with the character délicieusement romantic, leads the visitor until a small collar where he sees through the luxuriant vegetation the long one and high trail of cash.

By borrowing the staircases, then the small path, the small bridges, vestiges of the turning of a famous serial, one is not long in discovering the staged basins or the river precipitates its water. And it miracle takes place, in the middle of the rocks which surround the principal basin, on the small pontoon you can plunge your glance in this turquoise wave which finds its origin in water of the Verdon.

A council, the summer these wonders the morning, indeed you come to discover will benefit from a relative freshness in all quietude. By respect for the site, the bathe is prohibited.

In this place you will have the impression to be alone in the world in this nature preserved with the threshold of the paradise Which you are simply of passage or inhabitants since Sillans generations will take to you by the heart and will release you never again, which knows, can be that a ondine poured some filters in water of the cascade!

• The ramparts

If the Castle were deeply altered by the Marquis de Castellane, it in is not the same for the medieval enclosure, which only 1 crenellation was remade at the 19th century. Courtine flanked of circular towers (one of these towers was remade in 1993).

• The church ST Etienne

Existed like vault before the revolution. (17th century). You will notice his pretty porch and his apparent stones Behind the furnace bridge, a retable depicting the martyrdom of St Etienne. In the past an invaluable relic represented by a fragment of bone of the arm of St Etienne was preserved there in a reliquary in the shape of silver arm which one had even made enamel by a goldsmith. The reliquary disappeared it remains all the same a complete bone of the arm of the saint preserved in the Church of Sillans a mass is celebrated there every saturday at 18:00 and Tuesday at 17:30.

• The St Laurent vault

Was built in 1858, was left with the abandonment since several years it had undergone many depredations. In 2004 a building site of repair was undertaken by an association of voluntary young people who completely restored the building. The vault overhangs the village since a close hill consequently giving a sublime point of view on the Castle and the valley. 

• The pigeon one

Restored thanks to the assistance of the General advice in 1997, it shelters now a relay of cellphone .on discovers it in top of the carpark of the cascade.

• The plagette

Close to the bridge of Bresque opposite the place May 8, 1945 a quiet place at the edge of water where the visitors can spade screw in the shade of the trees. On the place of May 8 one sees the school which was one of the stations of the line Nice Meyrargues.

• The cascade

taking opposite the carpark of the cascade the way in the olive grove which gives on a way of 600 meters which lead to staircases, still 200 m before arriving at the cascade.

The Castle, very beautiful and noble masonry surrounded by splendid ramparts, the Castle was repurchased by the commune on March 19, 1992 with the Count de Castellane. 3 Castles followed in the course of the centuries, the first in the early Middle Ages, the second style fine rebirth was destroyed under the revolution by order of Barred, entirely rebuilt by Roland de Sillans about 1800 the current Castle resembles a large quadrangular country house.

It shelters on the 1st floor the town hall however that with rez of roadway four showrooms practically permanently accomodate ( from April 1 to December 30) revolving exposures whose elements change each month.

They offer a panorama astonishing and very rich person by works of artists and craftsmen of art covering all the range of the regional productions.

More than 20 artists are exposed every month, painters, sculptors, craftsmen of art, the entry is free, the visitors can discover these wonders every day except Monday and Tuesday from 9:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00 (from July to September the schedules are 9:00 to 12:00 and 15:00 to 19:00).

The park of the Castle also resounds of various demonstrations during the year, vacuum attics, festivals, cinema in the open air, concert etc (see list festivities).

The Castle is a high meeting place cultural multiform.

Indeed throughout the year follow one another in these walls or the park various demonstrations.

Exposures of paintings sculptures and craft industry of art follow one another of at the beginning of April at the end of December, opening every day except Monday and Tuesday.

These exposures are renewed every month by keeping 1 third of permanent.

These exposures also present Sculpture and craft industry of art (silks, jewels, fabrics of styles old, ceramic, leather, lamps).

You will be able to discover the new exhibitors in the heading activities of the month.

The Living room of the miniatures and doll's houses has taken place the last week end of February for 9 years and gathers craftsmen and collectors of doll's houses, bear of artists, old headstocks.