In Cogolin, two chapels dedicated to Saint Roch were built side by side at different times.
The 17th-century chapel, renovated in 2018, is now a cultural venue in its own right, dedicated to artists from all horizons.
In Cogolin, two chapels dedicated to Saint Roch were built side by side at different times:
- The 1st, on the right, was built around 1630 and sold as national property during the French Revolution, before being converted into a farm building.
- The second, on the left, replaced the older one around 1820.
These chapels were home to the Confrérie des pénitents blancs, an association of lay people committed to religious practice, who accompanied the deceased to their final resting place. The penitents wore a hood and a large robe called a sack.
The chapel on the right was restored between 2010 and 2012 and converted into an exhibition space. To the left of the entrance is the engraved year 1635, the probable date of its consecration. To the right, the wall was doubled and reinforced in the 18th century by four wide buttresses. The left-hand chapel, still in use, has a very simple facade, topped by a wall tower flanked by two pinnacles. It features a stained-glass window by Jacqueline de Kock. The interior features a large fresco of the Apocalypse of St. John, painted by Patrice Henry-Biabaud between 1988 and 1990.
Numerous artists have exhibited their work in this legendary venue. Les Soirées de la Chapelle" attracts artists, photographers, performers, painters, sculptors, craftsmen and emerging talents, with no geographical boundaries and no limits on artistic form, plastic or digital.
