Tourrettes-sur-Loup

Tourrettes- sur -Loup is a commune of the Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur in the Alpes -Maritimes with 4008 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011), which also leads to the name Tourrettes- lès -Vence since the French Revolution.

Geography

Tourrettes- sur -Loup is a village on a rocky outcrop above the river Loup overlooking the sea.

History

The rocky outcrop of Tourrettes Celto - Ligurian oppidum was one. The Romans taught in a Turres Altae their observation posts and their camp, and put it to 476. 1024 it was performed in a charter under the name of Castrum de Torretis. The Muslim Saracens by the French Mediterranean coast made temporarily unsafe to the Swiss Alps, settled in Tourrettes and fortified the place. The village was built on a promontory around a castle and the closed outer buildings functioned in conjunction with the steep cliffs and canyons as attachment. Plague, Albigensian Crusade and invasions demanded victims. According to his membership of Nice and the Savoy was Tourrette the Grimaldi, the Savoy united until it passed in 1388 to the County of Provence and Guichard Villeneuve, called Bastard of Vence was awarded. The Villeneuve, elevated to dukes, kept this feud until the French Revolution in 1789. 's Population then took possession of the castle and made it to their town hall what it is today. The last duke fled, but he was assassinated in Ventimiglia. When the Côte d' Azur was liberated in 1944, 850 people were still living in Tourrettes.

Attractions

Castle (Le Château ), built in 1430 ( originally a watchtower ), now City Hall
Clock Tower Gate (La Porte de l' Horloge ), Place de la Libération, originally a watchtower with a gate, previously the only access to Grand'Rue in place
East Gate (La Porte Est), Place de la Libération, between the two doors was formerly 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 Libération, built in 1551 in place of a Romanesque church, rebuilt in 1861
Chapel of St. John ( Chapelle Saint- Jean), with frescoes by Ralph Soupault (* 1965), naive paintings with scenes from the Old and New Testament combined with today's life in the village
Country house tradition and violets culture ( La Bastide aux Violet ), since 2008
Aqueduct and Mills ( L' aqueduc du Moulin ), Rue de la Bourgade, on the old road from Vence to Grasse - the water drove the large iron wheel of the oil mill
Wash house (Le Lavoir ), stone, indoor building at the Place de la Libération, built in 1900 in a cave
City walls ( Remparts ), from the 16th century, on which the houses were built, run around the village ( Chemin de Ronde )
Grand'Rue, is the main street in town, with the following buildings

Residence Grand'Rue No. 2, here lived the composer Francis Poulenc and composed in the 1950s, his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites
Old Hospital ( Ancien Hopital ), used until 1936

Stock Image (L' Oratory ), below the South Gate with the portrait of St. Mark and St. Michael
Magdalen Chapel ( Chapelle de la Madeleine ), Route de la Madeleine, with frescoes by Joop van Kralingen ( 1916-2001 )
Two shrines with portraits of Mary (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 poses next to a triptych of Bréa from the same century two gilded Holzretabeln, 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 Mercury. Paintings, engravings, pottery, sculptures and embroidery works were selected in Tourrettes and manufactured in the center for arts and crafts.

There is a trail above Tourrettes- sur -Loup from Chateau du Caire to the domain Courmettes ( Alm, 850 m) with views over the sea of Nice, Cagnes, Antibes and Cannes.

Clock Tower

Parish Church of St. Gregory the Great

Old Wash House

In 1967, the Paris Stock Exchange husband Antoine Gaudet granted Finnish, French-based architect Antti Lovag, he calls himself Habitologe, the contract to build a huge ball home on a slope. The plans for the house were created in 1969. Gaudets interest, however, slackened so that the construction not been completed for years. Due to the financial injection of a rich Englishman between 1986 and 1989 the building was completed. 1998 declared the French Ministry of Culture, the Maison Gaudet for historical monument. The architect lives (as of 2011 ) is still in a model of the project on the property.

Economy

In Tourrettes, a weekly market is held with many local cheeses and sausages, but also pottery. From Tourrettes the perfumer in Grasse and the manufacturers candied violets in Toulouse are supplied with violets, which are grown in Tourrettes. The Violet Festival ( " Fete des Violet " ) takes place every year since 1952 in March.

Ligne Central -Var

A former railway line ( Ancienne Chemins de Fer de Provence) led by Colomars in the Var valley over Gattières - St -Jeannet - Vence - Tourrettes- sur- Loup - Ponte du Loup - Le Bar -sur- Loup to Grasse, they was part of the route from Nice to Grasse and Draguignan Meyrargues above ( " Ligne Central -Var "). The route of this railway line mostly exists today and can be walked or traveled. Several bridges were blown up in August 1944:

The viaduct over the Loup at Pont -du -Loup
The viaduct over the Vallon des Bouirades in Tourrettes- sur -Loup
The viaduct over the Siagne in Grasse
The Pont de la Manda over the Var at Colomars

The operation on the sections of this rail link was set in 1950.

Special

A nonviolent community was established by Lanza del Vasto based on the model of the ashram of Mahatma Gandhi in 1950 in Tourrettes- sur -Loup for several years.

In the novel, Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony this place possesses an important role, much of the action takes place there.

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