Calvaire du Mont-Arès, Religious monument on Mont-Arès in Nestier, France.

The Calvaire du Mont-Arès is a religious monument with twelve dry stone chapels built along the southeastern slope of the hill. Each chapel holds sculpted scenes from the Passion of Christ protected within stone niches.

Construction began in 1854 under Father Haurou-Bejottes, who led local craftsmen and residents in building the first chapel. Over time, the site expanded to include all twelve chapels that stand today.

The four lowest chapels hold life-size clay figures of the Passion, cast by Italian specialists and fired in the now-vanished tile works of Saint-Laurent-de-Neste. The other seven once held the Stations of the Cross, two paintings each, now kept in the village church. At the foot of the climb a grotto shelters a Nativity with the Magi.

The twelve chapels stand in a line on the southeastern slope of Mont-Arès, near thirteen oaks now listed as remarkable trees; the upper chapel and the monastery ruins lie further up the hill. The site is reached on foot along the slope, and the green theatre of 400 seats built beside the monastery hosts artistic events.

The eleven lower chapels were built in a perfect line beside thirteen oaks, now listed as remarkable trees. Villagers carried sand, stone and beams up by hand, while women hauled water from the Neste in terracotta jugs balanced on their heads each morning to mix the mortar.