virtual visit of the Abbey of Silvacane - 4 Panoramic sights with 360° - -
It gets clear thus a singular atmosphere, a total serenity, between shade and sun, within a framework bucolic and in calms absolute, far from crowd
The Abbey of Silvacane is most recent of the three cistercians abbeys of Provence, it is towards 1144 that the monastery was founded in a site then sorry and marshy. It is him which gave its name to the monastery Silva Cana: forest of reeds. Just like his/her two sisters Thoronet (VAr) and Sénanque (in Gordes) it offer an architecture in perfect harmony with the rules preached by St Benoit and the order of Cîteau: simple to see austere, rigorous, functional and stripped of all the ornaments which can divert the monk of its prayer.
The beauty of the Abbey of Silvacane also results from the strength of volumes, of the harmony of the forms, the perfection of the equipment of the stones and the plays of light through rare openings.
Its sculptures are famous the best of the order cistercian, they remain however in the sober register of the plant and reduced to essence.
Since its repurchase by the State in 1846, the abbey of Silvacane is restored little by little by the architects of the historic buildings. It accomodates each year some prestigious concerts of famous Festival of Piano of the Castling of Anthéron like those of Vocal Music with Silvacane and of the International Festival of String quartets of Luberon
Opening : Of at the end of May at at the end of September:
ouvert tous.les.jours of 10h with 18h
From October at at the end of May:
opened tous.les.jours except Tuesday and public holidays
of 10h with 13h and 14h with 17h.
free for less than 18 years and 1st Sunday of the month
