Palais des Comtes de Provence

This 12th-century palace, former summer residence of the Counts of Provence (13th to 15th century), houses the museum of the Pays Brignolais, created in 1945 by André Jaubert.

Offering an interesting panorama of religious art and regional traditions (see the reconstruction of a 19th-century kitchen and that of a bauxite mine gallery), you can admire a fine set of paintings signed Barthélemy and Joseph Parrocel or Frédéric Montenard as well as the Gayole sarcophagus, which, dating from the 2nd century, is considered the oldest Christian monument in Gaul.

A collection of regional objects and furniture is also to be discovered, as well as the San-Sumian, a crude stone effigy made famous by its Embouligo (its navel), a very old Brignoles belief claiming that young people who kiss the navel in question find a spouse within the year, and that barren women become fertile...

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