La Turbie

La Turbie (in Italian "Turbia" from tropea, Latin for trophy) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.

La Turbie
Commune
The church of La Turbie and the Tropaeum Alpium
Coat of arms
Location of La Turbie
La Turbie
La Turbie
Coordinates: 43°44′47″N 7°24′06″E
CountryFrance
RegionProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
DepartmentAlpes-Maritimes
ArrondissementNice
CantonBeausoleil
IntercommunalityRiviera française
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-Jacques Raffaele[1]
Area
1
7.42 km2 (2.86 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[2]
3,063
 • Density410/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
06150 /06320
Elevation146–658 m (479–2,159 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

La Turbie was famous in Roman times for the large monument, the Trophy of Augustus, that Augustus made to celebrate his victory over the Ligurian tribes of the area. During the Middle Ages, the village (called then Turbia) was mainly under the dominion of the Republic of Genoa. Dante wrote in his Divina Commedia that Turbia was the western limit of the Italian Liguria.

It was alternatively part of Savoy or the Principality of Monaco, from where the population of Turbia has assimilated the dialect Monegasque, even if the local Ligurian dialect has maintained some characteristics of the nearby Niçois of Nice. Actually the local dialect is nearly extinct, mainly after the 1860 inclusion of the Savoian County of Nice in France.

On 13 September 1982, Princess Grace de Monaco was killed in a fatal car accident at La Turbie.

The commune formerly included the communes of Beausoleil and Cap d'Ail, which was disestablished at the beginning of the 20th century. Only the old main town, around the remaining structure of the Roman Trophy of Augustus, forms the current commune.

Geography

The boundaries of La Turbie were formerly more extensive and included the territory now contained in the town of Beausoleil, formerly known as Haut-Monte-Carlo, owing to its proximity to Monaco. The commune of La Turbie retains a smaller, common boundary with part of the Principality.

La Turbie can be reached either from Cap d'Ail on the coast or the Grand Corniche. Within the town is the Trophy of Augustus, also known as the Trophée des Alpes.

Sights

A limestone outcrop above La Turbie is called the Tête de Chien ("head of dog"), a folk etymology deriving from its former name, Testa de camp ("head of (military) camp").[3]

La Turbie is built, partly, with old stones recovered from the ruins of the Trophy of the Alpes (Trophy of Augustus), a Roman monument built by the Emperor Augustus to celebrate his victory over the Ligurian tribes which lived in the mountains of the area and attacked the merchants plying the Roman trade routes.

The association football club AS Monaco FC have had their training ground in La Turbie since 1981. The training center is located in an old quarry and has 2 natural grass pitches as well as an artificial turf "small pitch".[4]

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
19621,522—    
19681,761+15.7%
19751,826+3.7%
19821,969+7.8%
19902,609+32.5%
19993,021+15.8%
20083,165+4.8%

Twin towns — sister cities

La Turbie is twinned with:

Personalities

In pop culture

La Turbie was one of the locations where the 1998 film Ronin was filmed.[5] La Turbie also featured as a location in the 1943 novel "Biggles Fails to Return" by author Captain W.E. Johns.

See also

References
  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  3. A Book of the Riviera, Sabine Baring-Gould, 1905
  4. "Presentation of the Training Center | Club | AS Monaco FC". www.asmonaco.com. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  5. "Ronin". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
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