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La Turbie was famous in Roman times for the large monument, theTrophy of Augustus, that Augustus made to celebrate his victory over the Ligurian tribes of the area.During the Middle Ages, the village (called thenTurbia) was mainly under the dominion of theRepublic of Genoa. Dante wrote in hisDivina Commedia that Turbia was the western limit of the ItalianLiguria.
It was alternatively part ofSavoy or thePrincipality of Monaco, from where the population of Turbia has assimilated the dialectMonegasque, even if the local Liguriandialect has maintained some characteristics of the nearbyNiçois of Nice. Actually the local dialect is nearly extinct, mainly after the 1860 inclusion of theSardinianCounty of Nice inFrance.
La Turbie is the cradle of automobile mountain races.[3] On 31 January 1897, the last stage of the Marseilles-Nice race was a 17 km hillclimb betweenNice and La Turbie;André Michelin, at the wheel of a De Dion powered by a steam engine, won the race at the incredible average speed of 31.8 km per h. On 30 March 1900, German driver Wilhelm Bauer crashed and died, being the first driver killed during a hillclimb speed event. On 1 April 1903,William Eliot Morris Zborowski, Count de Montsaulvain, died at the wheel of his Mercedes nearly at the same place as Bauer. As reported in The New York Times, 2 April 1903, the French Minister of the Interior ordered the Prefect of Alpes-Maritimes to "stop the further use of the Nice-La Turbie course for automobiles." The race organizer, theNice Automobile Club, obtained the lift of the ban in 1909 and the race resumed.
From 1968 to 1995, nearly the same route was used for the last stage of the cyclist race Paris-Nice (excepting 1977). This time trial often decided the final winner of Paris-Nice. In 1972,Raymond Poulidor defeatedEddy Merckx, who had defeatedJacques Anquetil three years before.Sean Kelly, seven-time winner of Paris-Nice (1981-1988), won the La Turbie hillclimb five times.
On 13 September 1982,Princess Grace de Monaco was killed in a car accident atCap-d'Ail, near La Turbie, but on a road called "Route de la Turbie".[4]
The commune formerly included the communes ofBeausoleil and Cap-d'Ail, which was disestablished at the beginning of the 20th century. Only the old main town, around the remaining structure of the Roman Trophy of Augustus, forms the current commune.
The boundaries of La Turbie were formerly more extensive and included the territory now contained in the town ofBeausoleil, formerly known as Haut-Monte-Carlo, owing to its proximity toMonaco. The commune of La Turbie retains a smaller, common boundary with part of thePrincipality.
La Turbie can be reached either from Cap-d'Ail on the coast or the Grand Corniche. Within the town is theTrophy of Augustus, also known as the Trophée des Alpes.
A limestone outcrop above La Turbie is called theTête de Chien ("head of dog"), a folk etymology deriving from its former name,Testa de camp ("head of (military) camp").[5]
La Turbie is built, partly, with old stones recovered from the ruins of the Trophy of the Alpes (Trophy of Augustus), aRoman monument built by theEmperorAugustus to celebrate his victory over the Ligurian tribes which lived in the mountains of the area and attacked the merchants plying the Roman trade routes.
The association football clubAS Monaco FC have their training ground in La Turbie since 1981. The training center is located in an old quarry and has 2 natural grass pitches as well as an artificial turf "small pitch".[6]
La Turbie was one of the locations where the 1998 filmRonin was filmed.[8] La Turbie also featured as a location in the 1943 novel "Biggles Fails to Return" by authorCaptain W.E. Johns.
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