Escapade Biot
Biot Tourism Office
46 rue St Sébastien
06410 Biot
Tel: +33 (0)4 93 65 78 00
Guided tours
Smartphone apps
Aptly titled "Ville et métiers d’Art", the town of Biot welcomes you on an excursion centred on artisanal creativity. Although Biot is renowned for its pottery, it is also nurtures a great variety of other creative artists, such as jewellery makers, iron-workers, sculptors, and photographers, to name a few.
Four themed tours
Biot’s Tourism Office has prepared four themed self-guided tours to help you discover the town. The tours are available either from the Tourism Office itself, or you can download them from the Tourism Office’s website, or you can download the town’s app directly on to your smartphone – whichever method you opt for, all are free!
You can choose from the historical tour, the geologic tour, the glass-making tour and the creative professions tour. Together they make an excellent way to discover, and rediscover, Biot. All you have to do is let yourself be lead.
Culinary atelier and wood-fired oven baking for all
Every first weekend of the month, between 9-5pm, Biot opens its communal oven to its inhabitants to give them the opportunity to cook their dishes in a wood-fired oven. On Saturday, starting at 2.30pm, you can join a patisserie/bread-making atelier, open to all, and put your culinary skills to the test!
Under the watchful supervision of the oven director, you get the opportunity to enjoy flavours from yesteryear. Not only that, you will be able to taste "Fougassoun", a patisserie speciality native to Biot and approved by a “taste council”!
Fougassoun is type of fougasse made with oranges, pine-nuts and raisins, made on traditional festivals and weekends when the communal oven is open. The money raised from selling Fougassouns is used to help charities.
La verrerie de Biot®
You can’t visit Biot without visiting its renowned glass factory. Established in 1956, the Verrerie de Biot® has become famous worldwide for its bubble-effect glass.
It is free to visit the glass-making hall and watch the master glass-blowers at work as they pull the glass from the fire, blow it, create and shape it into totally unique objects.
Pedagogically underpinned, the Verrerie de Biot® also includes a Glass Eco-museum (Ecomusée du verre) that focusses on the history of glass-making and an International Glass Gallery which displays works by renowned glass-makers.