Château de Saint-Blaise

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de Saint-Blaise stands in ruins at the top of the Castello hill, on a spur of Mont Cima, in the hinterland of Nice. Its origin goes back to the 11th century: after the reconquest of Provence in 973, the fief of Saint-Blaise passed to the viscounts of Nice, who ceded it around 1075 to the abbey of Saint-Pons; the abbots remained its lords until the secularisation of the abbey in 1792. The site was briefly occupied in 1279 by the Chabaud, lords of Aspremont. The fortress was still modified in the 14th century, with the addition of a barbican, but is no longer mentioned after 1388. For a long time a mere hamlet of Levens, Saint-Blaise became a separate commune before 1777. Since 2019, a local association has been carrying out consolidation work on the keep and the barbican.