Chapelle Notre-Dame de Spéluque

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The chapel Notre-Dame de Spéluque, located in the municipality of Ampus in the Var (France), dates back to the 10th century. The whole was a priory from the abbey of Lérins until the Revolution. According to local historian Marcel Faure, the basilica was consecrated on 10 January 1090 by Berenger III, bishop of Fréjus.

Speluca name given to Saint Victor by Bertran de Saint-Martin bishop of Fréjus united to the collegiate of Pignans and then ceded to the Oratorians of Cotignac. At the time of the Revolution, this chapel, Beate Marie de Speluca, as it was designated in the old texts also known today as Chapelle Notre-Dame du Plan, was sold as "national property" and acquired by Madame d'Autran and then bought by the Jerphanion family. Following the favourable opinion of the Regional Commission for Historical, Archaeological and Ethnological Heritage (COREPHAE) of September 4, 1985, an order of January 21, 1986 was issued by the Prefect of the Region for the inclusion on the additional inventory of the historical monuments of the Chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Spéluque, known as Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Plan.

Finally, following the favourable opinion of the Higher Commission of Historic Monuments of 15 January 1990, a classification of the...