The forgotten chapel trail at Belvédère is a walking route that invites you to explore the region's rich religious and cultural heritage. The trail highlights a number of rural chapels that bear witness to popular fervour and local history.
The trail highlights a number of rural chapels that bear witness to popular fervour and local history.
Among the remarkable buildings that you can discover along this route are :
- Chapelle St Blaise (RD 171 towards Gordolasque), one of the patron saints of the commune. The coulagno, the rite of protection against sore throats, particularly goitre, for which the saint is venerated, is still performed here today. ): located at the end of the path, this small chapel features typical mountain architecture and offers beautiful views over the Vésubie valley.
- Chapelle St Antoine (in the village, rue St Antoine, the iconography, dedicated to its eponymous saint: Saint Antoine has a protective role against epidemics, which explains its location on the accesses to the village): dating from the end of the 15th century, it houses works such as an altar, paintings and murals.
- Chapelle Saint-Roch - 18th century (located near the cemetery). This was the entrance to the village from the mountains (St Roch was the patron saint of the plague).
-Chapelle du Planet (above the village on the GR52A, dedicated to Regina Coeli Fenestra (Queen of the Heaven of Windows)) and St Grat (at Gordolasque, get there by car, a saint invoked by farmers against bad weather and to protect their crops against parasites): These restored chapels bear witness to the importance of religious practices in the Niçois highlands.