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La Route de la Sculpture Contemporaine
The contemporary sculpture trail, opposite Mont Blanc, winds its way across the mountainside amongst the villages.

In the summer of 1973, the Plateau d'Assy, and the town of Passy, was the setting for a dialogue between art and the mountains : "Sculptures en montagne - Poême dans l'espace". The poet Jean-Pierre Lemesle brought art out of museums, using the setting and its history, and brought together an international team of the most representative of contemporary sculptors.

Paintings and sculptures invaded roads and lakes, forests and rocks high above Passy marking an alliance between art and the mountain environment.
Passy kept the monumental sculptures by Albert Feraud, Alexander Calder, Charles Semser, Agustin Cardenas, Joan Gardy Artigas. Some new works have been added post 1989, by artists such as Raymond Gosselin, Jean-François Dupuy, Romy et Gilles Roussi.
The trail spreads out over 15 km on the mountainside between the plains and Plaine-Joux, opposite Mont Blanc, and transforms Passy into an open air museum.
 
International biennial of contemporary sculpture
For 17 years now the biennial is a major date in Passy's cultural calendar and offers its visitors a glimpse at current sculpure.

This exhibition invites innovative sculptors of form, and open to the use of different materials. L'art du Pays de Mont Blanc has been organising the été cultural in Passy since 1985 with painting exhibitions, sculptures, gravings, glassworks, stain-glass, ceramics and weavings.