Spéracèdes
A hamlet of olive mills that won its own commune in 1910
The story
Before you is Spéracèdes, a village on the slope below Cabris. Its name first appears in the eleventh century, in the records of Lérins Abbey, as “la Perasceda.” For a long time it was a hamlet within the commune of Cabris. Three springs rose here, and their water turned the wheels of oil mills. The villagers wanted their own commune, and for about twenty years they stayed away from the elections in Cabris. They got their way on December 30, 1910. The Saint-Casimir church began as a chapel: the tympanum over the door bears the date 1762. It was enlarged in 1849, and in 1860 a bell tower was added and the chapel became a church. A few minutes’ walk away is the Baussy oil mill. It is more than a hundred years old. After a hard frost it was abandoned, and in 1960 Aimé Baussy and his wife brought it back to life. Above the village rises a peak with a cross. From there you can see the harbor of Cannes, the Lérins Islands, the Estérel and the Lac de Saint-Cassien. The writer and historian Max Gallo is buried in Spéracèdes.
Visiting
The village is open at any time. The Baussy mill welcomes visitors from November to March, when the olives are pressed; the rest of the year its shop is open. Hours are best checked on paysdegrassetourisme.fr.
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