Utelle
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Utelle | |
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Coordinates: 43°55′07″N 7°14′53″E / 43.9186°N 7.2481°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
Department | Alpes-Maritimes |
Arrondissement | Nice |
Canton | Tourrette-Levens |
Intercommunality | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Yves Gilli[1] |
Area 1 | 67.97 km2 (26.24 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 844 |
• Density | 12/km2 (32/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 06151 /06450 |
Elevation | 126–2,080 m (413–6,824 ft) (avg. 800 m or 2,600 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Utelle (French pronunciation: [ytɛl]; Occitan: Uels; Italian: Utello) is a commune about 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.
Geography
It is perched on a hill along the Vesubie Gorge not far from the Mercantour National Park.
Sights
Formerly an agricultural village planted with numerous olive trees, the village is near the Madonne d'Utelle, a chapel that serves as an annual pilgrimage site for local Catholics. In their 1997 book "The Templar Revelation," Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince mention (on pg. 82) "the old Templar town of Utelle, whose medieval houses still bear the esoteric sigils of the alchemists..." It is one of sixteen villages grouped together by the Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur tourist department as the Route des Villages Perchés (Route of Perched Villages). The others are: Aspremont, Carros, Castagniers, Coaraze, Colomars, Duranus, Èze, Falicon, La Gaude, Lantosque, Levens, La Roquette-sur-Var, Saint-Blaise, Saint-Jeannet and Tourrette-Levens.[3]
Population
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 516 | — |
1975 | 451 | −1.91% |
1982 | 398 | −1.77% |
1990 | 456 | +1.72% |
1999 | 488 | +0.76% |
2009 | 698 | +3.64% |
2014 | 812 | +3.07% |
2020 | 863 | +1.02% |
Source: INSEE[4] |
See also
Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ "The route of perched villages" (PDF). Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. 2013.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
External links
- (in English and French) & (Occitan) Chimes from County of Nice : tirignoun (chime) from Utelle.
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