Tourves

Tourves
region	Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department	Var
Arrondissement	Brignoles
Canton	Brignoles
Community association	Communauté de communes Comté de Provence
Coordinates	43 ° 24 ' N , 5 ° 55' E Coordinates: 43 ° 24 ' N , 5 ° 55' E
height	238-542 m
surface	65.62 km 2
Residents	5,025 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	77 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	83170
INSEE code	83140
	; Town center

Tourves is a French municipality with 5025 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Var department in the region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It belongs to the canton of Brignoles in the arrondissement of the same name .

geography

Tourves is located in the wide, agricultural plain of the Caramy Valley at the foot of the 546 m high Piégros , one of the last foothills of the Massif de la Sainte-Baume , which rises in the south. From here the Caramy flows through a gorge with grottos and karst caves into the valley. In the east of the municipality there is a plain crossed by several ponds, which extends over an area of three hectares and is fed by numerous springs.

The esplanade of the Château de Valbelle is protected as a Site Inscrit . From the summit of Saint-Probace from a broad panorama over the town and the Caramytal .

history

The city goes back to the late antique Ad Turrem , a fortified settlement in the Celto-Ligurian period, according to the Tabula Peutingeriana a way station in the late antique .

population

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2017
Residents	1562	1648	1844	2137	2788	3428	4641	5025

The community has seen above-average growth since the early 1960s. From 1962 until the survey in 2006, the number of residents with primary residence in Tourves tripled.

Town twinning

The municipality maintains a partnership with the Italian municipality of Perinaldo in Liguria .

economy

The original main source of income was agriculture, in which a variety of products were produced. The spectrum ranged from viticulture to fish and snail breeding to beekeeping. Today this sector is in decline and has been replaced by trade, services and commerce. Bauxite mining is an important branch of the industrial economy .

Web links

Commons : Tourves - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ C. Goudineau: Ad Turrem . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

[1] C. Goudineau: Ad Turrem . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .