Utelle

Utelle
Utelle
	Commune
	A view of Utelle from a nearby hillside
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Utelle Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region Utelle
	Coordinates: 43°55′07″N 7°14′53″E / 43.9186°N 7.2481°ECoordinates: 43°55′07″N 7°14′53″E / 43.9186°N 7.2481°E
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement	Nice
Canton	Tourrette-Levens
Intercommunality	Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Bernard Cortes
Area1	67.97 km2 (26.24 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	693
• Density	10/km2 (26/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (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. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Utelle (Occitan: Uels) 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.

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.^[1]

(in English) (in French) & (Occitan) Chimes from County of Nice : tirignoun (chime) from Utelle.

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