Crotté walk

Chapel at the end of the village at the foot of olive groves. Opened occasionally during specific celebrations. Possibility to see it from the outside all year round.Covered with a lauze roof, this chapel is raised in the 17th century by the doctor Horace Cottalorda. In the centre of the altarpiece, a canvas depicting the Virgin and the Child between Saint Anthony and Saint Eloi rises above the altar. This chapel is the seat of the confraternity of Saint Anthony. La Soucétà Briiencà l'entretien and celebrates a Mass there every year. At the end of the service the participants gather around a meal shared with the Breilloises culinary specialties. Built a few meters from the Gate of Genoa, the chapel allowed travelers to make their devotions before crossing the ramparts.

Dating back to the Middle Ages, with the wall that led to it, it is the last vestige of the ramparts that encircled the ancient city and the three doors through which one entered it. Until 1814 it closed the way coming from Free the Genoese..

Access via the Crottés trail which overlooks the roofs of the village.These small vaulted shelters, typical of the region, are after the Sardinian restoration, when the Republic of Genoa is attached to the Kingdom of Savoy-Sardinia. No longer threatening his southern flank, the sovereign abandoned the castle of Ar Casté which then served as a stone quarry for the people of the country. Some build these Crottés into shelters in which they store clays during the night on which they dry figs and plums.

Archaeological discoveries prove that the site of Breil sur Roya is inhabited since the Neolithic era.