Valbonne - Sainte-Blaise

St. Blaise was erected within the 13th century as the church of the former "Abbaye de Valbonne" = vallis bona), founded in 1199 by monks of the Chalaisian Order, that was flourishing in Southern France at that time. From 1285 on the abbey belonged to the Benedictine order. It got dissolved in 1788. The parish of the village that had grown around the monastery from the 16th century on uses the church since then.

The Romanesque architecture is simple and sober as the Chalaisian Order had a similar appoach to art as the Cistercians.