Town Var, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Le Val takes place in Country of Provence, about fifty kilometers from Toulon and its harbor. It is located near Cotignac, Montfort-sur-Argens and Chateauvert.
Inhabited for over 4,500 years, as evidenced by the dolmens that still stand proudly, the territory of the Valley was also the venue of an oppidum 300 years BC, which will be held until the tenth century. Later owned by the family of Châteaurenard, the town develops gradually, particularly with the development of laundries, tanneries and other mills.
Today Le Val welcomes many visitors attracted by its authentic setting, as well as by its great cultural offer.
Walking through the town, enjoy the architecture and old buildings such as the nineteenth century town hall with its ceiling revealing the history of Val via a triptych, the portal of the Tithe, which served as bulwark door Middle Ages, the old wash house with elements of the old hall of the sixteenth century or instead Remparts which reveals some of the medieval walls with mills of the eighteenth century and a defense tower.
The clock tower has a bell of the seventeenth century, including a clock tower with wrought iron campanile eighteenth.
To enjoy sunny days towards the garden-theater Paradou with its monumental sculpture representing an allegory of the Comedy or garden Gorguettes, a beautiful Provencal garden botanical scents that also reveals an aqueduct from the fourteenth century.
Le Val also has an interesting religious heritage with the college Our Lady of the Assumption of the eleventh century congregations of the chapel from the second half of the nineteenth century with its decoration style of Napoleon III or the Notre-Dame chapel de-Pitié registered and listed building. Built in the seventeenth century, it is part of the little chapels decorated in shells that remain in the country. Inside, the apse and the altar are in fact decorated with over 9000 shells thirty different species. Guests can also enjoy the common Saint-Cyriaque chapels, St. Blaise, Notre-Dame-de-Paracol, Penitents-Noirs and Congregations for children of Mary.
Housed in the old oven in the Middle Ages, the municipal museum of Santon is the opportunity to admire a beautiful collection of Santon and Provencal crèches from around the world.
Children and their parents will appreciate the ancient toys museum and historical figure with his collection of toys dating back to the nineteenth century some.
The Sacred Art Museum offers various religious objects, votive offerings and liturgical furniture.
By pushing the doors of the Museum of the Olive Tree, you can learn more about the olive oil business in the region, including through a collection of old tools.
Also Municipal Museum, Museum of Medieval route offers visitors a permanent collection of the former medieval road leading from Grasse Brignoles.
