Beuil

Beuil ( until 1860 Boglio, in the local dialect Buèi ) is a commune with 496 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur; it belongs to Arrondissement Nice and Canton Guillaume.

Geography

Beuil located 78 kilometers from Nice at the end of the Gorges du Cian at 1450 meters altitude on the edge of the Mercantour National Park. It, together with its neighborhood Les Launes and Valberg ( part of the community Péone ) is a ski resort that is one of the major ski resorts in the Alps.

History

Beuil caught early on as a fortified place, the attention of the Romans. As Castrum Boliacum it secured from now on the compound of the Romans in Cimiez ( above Nice ) with Italy.

1258 revolted against his mighty Beuil Mr. Guillaume Rostaing. Whose only daughter was with the Andaron Grimaldi, a member of the Genoese patrician family of Grimaldi, married, whose line in Bueil now ruled one of the largest fief of Provence, and in time became barons and earls. Jean Grimaldi de Bueil was seneschal of Provence, his family often governor of the Dukes of Savoy in the county of Nice. Annibal de Grimaldi Beuil whose military talent had saved the crown of Savoy, rebelled against the Duke without have reinsured sufficient. He was executed and his property was confiscated. The Castle of Beuil in 1633 razed.

In Turin, the Count Mattei sold his rights to Beuil to the people who sold it again for 6125 Louis.

During the Napoleonic occupation Beuil was like the whole county of Nice once already from 1793 to 1815 in the short term to France, then fell back to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and was ceded to France in 1860.

Demographics

From 1968 only residents with a primary residence

Tourism

Beuil is a major stage in the GR 52A, the ' Sentier du Mercantour Panoramique '.

Personalities

• Ferdinand Ferber, aviation pioneer
• Marcel Pourchier (1897-1944), officer and Olympic competitor