Utelle

{{short description|Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France}}

{{Infobox French commune

|name = Utelle

|commune status = Commune

|image = Utelle 0545.JPG

|caption = A view of Utelle from a nearby hillside

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Utelle 06.svg

|arrondissement = Nice

|canton = Tourrette-Levens

|INSEE = 06151

|postal code = 06450

|mayor = Yves Gilli{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=2 December 2020|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur

|coordinates = {{coord|43.9186|7.2481|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 800

|elevation min m = 126

|elevation max m = 2080

|area km2 = 67.97

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

}}

Utelle ({{IPA|fr|ytɛl}}; {{langx|oc|Uels}}; {{langx|it|Utello}}) is a commune about {{Convert|40|mi|km|0}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.nicecotedazur.org/uploads/media_items/villagesperches2013-ang.original.pdf|title=The route of perched villages|publisher=Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur|year=2013}}

Population

{{Historical populations

|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7633058?geo=COM-06151#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

|percentages = pagr

|align = none

|1968 |516

|1975 |451

|1982 |398

|1990 |456

|1999 |488

|2009 |698

|2014 |812

|2020 |863

}}

References

External links

{{in lang|en|fr}} & (Occitan) [http://mtcn.free.fr/mtcn-traditional-music-midi-chime.php Chimes from County of Nice] : tirignoun (chime) from Utelle.

Category:Communes of Alpes-Maritimes

Category:Alpes-Maritimes communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia