Tourrettes-sur-Loup
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Alpes-Maritimes | |
| Arrondissement | Grasse | |
| Canton | Valbonne | |
| Community association | Sophia Antipolis | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 43 ' N , 7 ° 4' E | |
| height | 47-1,246 m | |
| surface | 29.28 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,999 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 137 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 06140 | |
| INSEE code | 06148 | |
| Website | www.tourrettessurloup.com | |
.JPG) View of Tourrettes-sur-Loup |
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Tourrettes-sur-Loup is a French commune in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in the Alpes-Maritimes department with 3999 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), which has also been called Tourrettes-lès-Vence since the French Revolution . The municipality is a member of the Sophia Antipolis municipal association .
geography
Tourrettes-sur-Loup is a village on a rock spur above the Loup River , overlooking the sea.
history
The Tourrettes rock spur was a Celto-Ligurian oppidum . The Romans set up their observation post and their camp in Turres Altae and held it until 476. In 1024 it was listed in a document under the name Castrum de Torretis . The Muslim Saracens , who temporarily made the French Mediterranean coast as far as the Swiss Alps unsafe, settled in Tourrettes and fortified the place. The village was built on the rocky spur around a castle and the closed, outer buildings functioned as a fortification in connection with the steeply sloping rocks and ravines. The plague , the Albigensian crusade and invasions claimed victims. According to its affiliation to Nice and the Savoy, Tourrette belonged to the Grimaldi , who united the Savoy until it became part of the county of Provence in 1388 and Guichard Villeneuve , known as the Bastard of Vence, was awarded. The Villeneuve, raised to dukes, kept this fiefdom until the French Revolution in 1789. The population then took possession of the castle and made it their town hall , which it is today. The last duke escaped, but was murdered in Ventimiglia . When the Côte d'Azur was liberated in 1944, 850 people were still living in Tourrettes.
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| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2016 |
| Residents | 1115 | 1548 | 2267 | 2727 | 3449 | 3870 | 4110 | 3988 |
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Tourrettes-sur-Loup
- Castle (Le Château), built in 1430 (originally a watchtower), now town hall
- Clock tower gate (La Porte de l´Horloge), Place de la Liberation, originally a watchtower with a gate, formerly the only access to the Grand´Rue in town
- East Gate (La Porte Est), Place de la Liberation, between the two gates there used to be a moat
- New gate (Le Portail Neuf) in the south of the village
- Parish church of St. Gregory the Great (L´Eglise Saint Grégoire Le Grand), Place de la Liberation, built in 1551 instead of a Romanesque church, rebuilt in 1861
- Chapel of St. John (Chapelle Saint-Jean), with frescoes by Ralph Soupault (* 1965), naive painting with scenes from the Old and New Testament linked to today's life in the village
- Country house of tradition and violet culture (La Bastide aux Violettes), since 2008
- Aqueduct and mills (L'Aqueduc du Moulin), Rue de la Bourgade, across the old road from Vence to Grasse - the water drove the big iron wheel of the oil mill
- Wash house (Le Lavoir), stone, roofed building on Place de la Liberation, built in 1900 in a rock cave
- City walls (Remparts), from the 16th century, on which the houses were built, lead around the place (Chemin de Ronde)
- Grand'Rue is the main street in town with the following buildings
- Residential building Grand'Rue No. 2, this is where the composer Francis Poulenc lived and composed his opera Dialogues des Carmélites in the 1950s
- Old Hospital (Ancien Hopital), used until 1936
- Wayside shrine (L´Oratoire), below the south gate with the image of St. Mark and St. Michael
- Magdalenen Chapel (Chapelle de la Madeleine), Route de la Madeleine, with frescoes by Joop van Kralingen (1916–2001)
- two wayside shrines with portraits of Maria (1788) and St. Anna (1849), Route de la Madeleine
- old train station (Ancienne gare des' Chemin de fer de Provence), below the village
The church from the 15th century houses a triptych by Bréa from the same century, two gilded wooden retables , some statues from the 17th century, some busts from the 15th and 16th centuries and reliquaries from the 17th century. Behind the high altar is an altar from the 1st century, which was dedicated to Mercurius . Paintings, engravings, pottery, sculptures and embroidery were selected in Tourrettes and made in the Center for Arts and Crafts.
There is a high path above Tourrettes-sur-Loup from the Château du Caire to the Courmettes domain (alpine pasture, 850 m) with views over the sea from Nice via Cagnes , Antibes to Cannes .
View of Tourrettes-sur-Loup with viaduct
Clock tower
Parish Church of Gregory the Great
Old wash house
- Maison Gaudet or Maison du Rouréou
In 1967, the Paris stock exchange man Antoine Gaudet commissioned the Finnish architect Antti Lovag , who lives in France and who calls himself a habitologist , to build a huge spherical house on the hillside. The plans for the house were drawn up in 1969. However, Gaudet's interest waned, so that construction was not completed for years. Thanks to a financial injection from a rich Englishman, the building was completed between 1986 and 1989. In 1998, the French Ministry of Culture declared Maison Gaudet a Historic Monument . The architect still lives (as of 2011) in a model of the project on the property.
economy
In Tourrettes there is a weekly market with many local cheeses and sausages, but also pottery. Tourrettes supplies the perfume manufacturers in Grasse and the manufacturers of candied violets in Toulouse with violets grown in Tourrettes. The violet festival ("Fete des Violettes") has been held annually in March since 1952.
Ligne Central-Var
A former railway line (Ancienne Chemins de fer de Provence ) ran from Colomars in the Var valley via Gattières - St-Jeannet - Vence - Tourrettes-sur-Loup - Ponte-du-Loup - Le-Bar-sur-Loup to Grasse , she was part of the route from Nice to Meyrargues via Grasse and Draguignan (" Ligne Central-Var "). Most of the route of this railway line still exists today and can be walked or driven on. Several bridges were blown up in August 1944:
- the viaduct over the Loup at Pont-du-Loup
- the viaduct over the Vallon des Bouirades at Tourrettes-sur-Loup
- the viaduct over the Siagne near Grasse
- the bridge Pont de la Manda over the Var at Colomars
The operation on the sections of this railway connection was stopped in 1950.
particularities
A nonviolent community was established by Lanza del Vasto for a few years based on the model of the Ashram by Mahatma Gandhi in Tourrettes-sur-Loup in 1950.
In the novel Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony , this location has an important meaning, much of the action takes place there.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Alpes-Maritimes . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-071-X , pp. 112-117.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Gossweiler: Le train des pignes (part 4). November 13, 2011.
- ↑ CDFP Railway.