Belvédère
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Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region
Belvédère
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| Coordinates: 44°00′56″N 7°19′18″E / 44.0156°N 7.3217°ECoordinates: 44°00′56″N 7°19′18″E / 44.0156°N 7.3217°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |
| Department | Alpes-Maritimes | |
| Arrondissement | Nice | |
| Canton | Tourrette-Levens | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Paul Burro | |
| Area1 | 75.41 km2 (29.12 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)2 | 685 | |
| • Density | 9.1/km2 (24/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 06013 /06450 | |
| Elevation | 575–3,080 m (1,886–10,105 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Belvédère (Occitan: Barver) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. The village of Belvédère is an attractive village sitting above the river Vésubie at the entrance of the Gordolasque valley.
Belvédère lies to the west of Mont Bégo. The sacred mountain, close to Nice, in the Alpes Maritimes and part of the Mercantour National Park, currently being included in the UNESCO world heritage list. For thousands of years, from the Stone Age all the way to the Iron Age, the first inhabitants of Europe were climbing all the way to the top of Mount Bego along the Canyons of the Valley of the Roya river starting from the Mediterranean Sea. They have recorded their early expressions of observing nature in more than thirty thousand graffiti on the stones of the Vallée des Merveilles. The Belvederois remained an anonymous inhabitants of this part of Ligurie (Liguria) living on the fringes of the sacred mountain. There are some vestiges of their ancient fortifications for example there is evidence of a part of a fort behind the church, which can be considered as the prehistoric beginnings of the actual village.
In 500 BC the Gauls infiltrated the Ligurian coast and arrived in the mountains around . The inhabitants of Massalia (Marseilles) founded colonies along the coast: Antibes, Monaco, Nice. Farmers spread inland raising vines and olives without however reducing the independence of the mountain dwellers
The Romans crossed the Alps Maritimes to secure a passage to Nice & Marseilles and to fight in Spain. In 125 BC they annexed the inland areas to found the Roman province of Provence followed by the Alpine regions as far as Tyrol.Belvedere was occupied and noble Romans of Cimez (Nice) who spent summers in Belvedere and developed the thermal baths at the nearby mountain village of . Reputedly Conrelia Solenina wife of the third century emperor Galienus(c. 218 – 268) and mother of Valerian II, Saloninus, and Marinianus visited the baths.
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