Vallauris

Vallis Aurea, the golden valley, appears in the tenth century as part of the bishopric of Antibes and later passed to the abbey of Lérins. On 20 April 1501 the prior Raynier Lascaris granted the land to families from his county of Ventimiglia and imposed a plan for rebuilding the village, the origin of today's old town; the deed already mentions Vallauris pottery.

Cooking pottery was the town's trade for centuries, turning to art pottery and ceramics in the early twentieth century. After the Second World War artists settled here, Picasso among them, from 1948 to 1955; he gave the town L'Homme au mouton in 1950 and painted La Guerre et la Paix for the chapel of the château.