Duranus | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Duranus.svg |
Arrondissement: | Nice |
Canton: | Tourrette-Levens |
Insee: | 06055 |
Postal Code: | 06670 |
Mayor: | Jean-Michel Maurel[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
Coordinates: | 43.8942°N 7.2597°W |
Elevation Min M: | 194 |
Elevation Max M: | 1500 |
Area Km2: | 16.10 |
Duranus (in French pronounced as /dyʁanys/; Occitan (post 1500);: Duranús; Italian: Duranusso) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.
Duranus is one of sixteen villages grouped together by the Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur tourist department as the Route des Villages Perchés (Route of Perched Villages). The others are as follows: Aspremont, Carros, Castagniers, Coaraze, Colomars, Èze, Falicon, La Gaude, Lantosque, Levens, La Roquette-sur-Var, Saint-Blaise, Saint-Jeannet, Tourrette-Levens and Utelle.[2]