Vallauris

Vallauris is located in the Provence- Alpes -Cote d' Azur in southeastern France a town with 27,411 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the Alpes - Maritimes. Vallauris is the administrative center of the canton of Vallauris, Antibes- Ouest is a town in the western part of the metropolitan area around Antibes. The place Golfe- Juan Vallauris is part of the municipality and a fashionable seaside resort on the Côte d' Azur.

Vallauris is known for the production of ceramics since the 16th century. Beginning of the 20th century was devoted to the family Massaging the artistic ceramics. Pablo Picasso has this much influence during his stay in Vallauris in the 1950s.

Culture

In 1948, Pablo Picasso came to Vallauris, where he lived in the villa Galloise to 1955. In his studio you Fournas, which was housed in a former perfume factory, he created during this period a series of sculptures and paintings, the images of war and peace from the year 1952, which are among his major works of this period. They can be in the vestibule of the chapel, which was connected to the Picasso Museum, visited. His bronze statue man with the sheep from 1950 is situated on the market square of Vallauris. With the help of the printer Hidalgo Arnera he made ​​many linocuts.

As citizens of the city of Picasso wore in the 1950s significantly to the renewal of artistic pottery of Vallauris. In 1950, he was thus made ​​an honorary citizen of the city. In 1961 he married Jacqueline Roque, his second wife, the town hall of Vallauris.

In Vallauris regularly finds the " Biennale Internationale de Ceramique Contemporaine " instead of the " Musée national Picasso La Guerre et la Paix ".

Twinning

Twin cities of Vallauris, the Hungarian city Hódmezővásárhely and the German city of Lindenberg im Allgäu.