Utelle

Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

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Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Coat of arms

Location of Utelle

(2020–2026) Yves Gilli^[1]Area

67.97 km² (26.24 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

844 • Density12/km² (32/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

06151 /06450

Elevation126–2,080 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 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
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
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]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ "The route of perched villages" (PDF). Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. 2013.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE