 The church was acquired by the French state in 1846, the remaining buildings not until 1949.It is one of the three Cistercian abbeys in Provence known as the "three sisters of Provence" (""les trois soeurs provençales""), the other two being Sénanque Abbey and Le Thoronet Abbey; Silvacane was possibly the last-established.The structures, of the late 12th and 13th centuries, are mostly Romanesque, with some Gothic elements.