Utelle
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Coat of arms of Utelle Coat of arms | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| Department | Alpes-Maritimes |
| Arrondissement | Nice |
| Canton | Tourrette-Levens |
| Intercommunality | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
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| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Yves Gilli[1] |
Area 1 | 67.97 km2 (26.24 sq mi) |
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| 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
[edit | edit source]It is perched on a hill along the Vesubie Gorge not far from the Mercantour National Park.
Sights
[edit | edit source]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.[2]
Population
[edit | edit source]| 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[3] | ||
See also
[edit | edit source]Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department
References
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- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
External links
[edit | edit source]- (in English and French) & (Occitan) Chimes from County of Nice : tirignoun (chime) from Utelle.
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