City hall

The first "town house" was built above the communal oven, after authorization from the lord of Châteauneuf, co-lord of Gassin in 1584. The banality is the general and obligatory use of a property belonging to the lord or to the one who acquired this property with his banality: which was the case of the said oven, passing from hand to hand, bought by the commune, then sold to Mr. Ollivier to pay off loan debts, finally bought back to become part of the communal heritage.
The original town hall consisted of only one room, corresponding to the current ground floor on the right upon entering, minus the passageway onto the street. It was enlarged in 1844 through the successive purchase of adjoining houses and raised again in 1899 to house the school (girls' and boys' classes) and the teachers' couples.
In 1869, Mr. Parent, then director of the Northern Railway and inventor of several locomotives, having stayed in Gassin, donated the clock. The town council at the time voted 300 francs to build the chamber that would house the mechanism. As an aside, the space intended for the clock face was too small, hence the need to enlarge it. Since then, the clock has been in place. It marks the hours of our lives by day. At night, it is silent, much to the dismay of insomniacs who miss these auditory cues, but to the great relief of the local residents who used to wake with a start and be kept awake until the aftershock, especially between eleven o'clock and midnight!
The town hall has become cramped, despite occupying all the space. It was renovated in 1985 during Robert Dho's term; on the first floor, it contains various offices for the mayor, her deputies, and others intended for the general management of services, the population-civil status department, accounting, urban planning, and community events.
A superb meeting room (formerly a classroom) where weddings also take place, mirroring the original premises… four hundred years to blossom!
It served as a filming location for the series "Sous le soleil" (renamed "Saint-Tropez" internationally), with Bénédicte Delmas, Adeline Blondieau and Tonya Kinzinger among others.
The town hall was visited in 1868 by Prince Napoleon-Jérôme Bonaparte (1812-1891), who came to meet with the elected officials of Gassin.