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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

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 516—    
1975 451−1.91%
1982 398−1.77%
1990 456+1.72%
1999 488+0.76%
2007 685+4.33%
2012 765+2.23%
2017 873+2.68%
2023 805−1.34%
Source: INSEE[4]

See also

Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department

References

  1. ^ “Répertoire national des élus: les maires”. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ “Populations de référence 2023” (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
  3. ^ “The route of perched villages” (PDF). Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur. 2013.
  4. ^ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE