Ursuline Convent

A Cistercian convent of the 10th and 11th centuries, it was restored successively by the Augustinians, the Ursulines and the Trinitarians.

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It was under the Ursulines that the building took its present form and was enlarged in 1614 (donation to the order by Mr Tadhey), first by one floor and then by four towards the end of the 17th century when the nuns were more and more
numerous.
There was the convent itself with its cloister, the priory which served as a school for the young noble girls of the region (education and music), the farmhouse and the garden. Driven out by the revolution in 1789, (the convent became a gendarmerie barracks) the Ursulines returned under the 1st
Empire and make way for the Trinitarian Sisters who will remain until 1905, when the property of the Church and the State is separated.
Today, the farmhouse has become a magnificent private property, the priory, first bought by the city of Toulon to make a children's home it was then sold to a private individual. The garden houses the tomb of the Dukes of Blacas and the chapel (restored in the 19th century) the Simon Segal Museum of Contemporary Art.