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Utelle | |
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 A view of Utelle from a nearby hillside | |
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 Location of Utelle | |
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| Coordinates:43°55′07″N7°14′53″E / 43.9186°N 7.2481°E /43.9186; 7.2481 | |
| 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 (2022)[2] | 824 |
| • Density | 12.1/km2 (31.4/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 acommune about 40 miles (64 km) northeast ofNice in theAlpes-Maritimesdepartment in southeasternFrance.
It is perched on a hill along theVesubie Gorge not far from theMercantour National Park.
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 localCatholics. 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 esotericsigils of the alchemists..." It is one of sixteen villages grouped together by theMétropole Nice Côte d'Azur tourist department as theRoute 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 andTourrette-Levens.[3]
| 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] | ||
Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department
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