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Tourrette-Levens

Coordinates: 43°47′15″N 7°16′36″E / 43.7875°N 7.2767°E

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Tourrette-Levens
Commune
A view of Tourrette-Levens from the castle
Coat of arms
Location of Tourrette-Levens
Tourrette-Levens Show map of France Tourrette-Levens Show map of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Coordinates: 43°47′15″N 7°16′36″E / 43.7875°N 7.2767°E / 43.7875; 7.2767
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)	Alain Frère
Area ¹	16.5 km² (6.4 sq mi)
Population (2008)	4,728
• Density	290/km² (740/sq mi)
Demonym	Tourrettans
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	06147 /06690
Elevation	160–845 m (525–2,772 ft) (avg. 390 m or 1,280 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Tourrette-Levens (Occitan: Torreta de Levens) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	2,035	—
1968	2,650	+30.2%
1975	2,644	−0.2%
1982	3,004	+13.6%
1990	3,412	+13.6%
1999	4,116	+20.6%
2008	4,728	+14.9%

Tourism

Tourrette-Levens 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 Utelle.^[1]

See also

Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department

References

INSEE

External links

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Castle and Full Moon (14 March 2009)

^ "The route of perched villages" (PDF). Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. 2013.

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