Artistic heritage

Country of sculptors, Bessans has extreme richness within the field of popular art like religious art : spinning wheels and distaffs, wooden toys, statues, crosses...

The most famous of the sculptors was the Clappier. Jean-Baptiste Clappier, from the hamlet of Vincendières, was one of the local artists who managed to master every technique of baroque art.

The most famous of the sculptures is the devil, the emblem of Bessans, its origins only dating from 1857.