La Trinité (Alpes-Maritimes)
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Alpes-Maritimes | |
| Arrondissement | Nice | |
| Canton | Nice-7 | |
| Community association | Nice Cote d'Azur | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 45 ′ N , 7 ° 19 ′ E | |
| height | 47-700 m | |
| surface | 14.91 km 2 | |
| Residents | 10,017 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 672 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 06340 | |
| INSEE code | 06149 | |
 Notre Dame de Laghet monastery |
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La Trinité (also: Trinité-Victor as a tribute to I. Victor Emmanuel ) is a French municipality with 10,017 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Nice , the Canton of Nice-7 and the Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur . The inhabitants are called Trinitaires .
geography
La Trinité is located on the Paillon River , directly to the northeast of Nice , less than ten kilometers from the city center.
history
Already historically, La Trinité was a not insignificant place on the road from Nice to Turin , which had previously been laid out as Via Julia Augusta . The Notre Dame de Laghet monastery was founded in 1674 as a convent of the Discalced Carmelites in the local village of Laghet, based on the chapel built in 1652, in which the miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary should have occurred .
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| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2012 |
| Residents | 3,625 | 4,787 | 7,068 | 8,279 | 10.197 | 10,046 | 9,925 | 10,230 | 10,085 |
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in La Trinité (Alpes-Maritimes)
- Très-Sainte-Trinité church, built as a chapel in 1617, externally a copy of the Gran Madre de Dio church in Turin , a historic monument since 2004
- Saint-Grat Church, built in 1848
- Monastery of Our Lady of Laghet 17th century
- Fort de La Drète
- Grand Corniche des Départements Natural Park
Personalities
- Priscilla Betti (* 1989), singer
traffic
La Trinité is served by the Nice tram and the Tendabahn . The A8 autoroute and the national route 204a run through the municipality .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Alpes-Maritimes . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-071-X , pp. 706-711.
Web links
- La Trinité website (French)