# Chapelle Saint-Claude

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Chapelle Saint-Claude is a Romanesque rural chapel in Antibes, within France’s Alpes-Maritimes region. Its cut-stone walls preserve a simple medieval form.

The building probably dates from the twelfth or thirteenth century. Written records mention it in 1616 and again in 1707.

In the eighteenth century, the chapel belonged to an estate covering about 180 hectares beyond Antibes’ city walls. Old maps place it at a crossroads.

Travellers and pilgrims once found shelter there when bad weather interrupted their journeys. Today, a small green enclosure surrounds the chapel between a commercial centre and a busy road.

A cross above the entrance resembles the cross pattée associated with the Knights Templar. Later research suggests that this cross was added after the chapel’s medieval period.

That detail leaves the Templar connection uncertain, although Antibes served as a departure point for Crusades. The chapel’s survival also reflects local efforts to protect it.

A proposed relocation in 1971 failed, while a planned road widening in 1989 threatened demolition. A local association then organised a petition that helped preserve the building.

The city of Antibes has owned Chapelle Saint-Claude since 11 April 1991. The chapel appears as a notable building in the local urban plan.

Its original door and wrought-iron window grille have disappeared, but the main structure remains. Chapelle Saint-Claude now records Antibes’ rural and religious past within a modern landscape.

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