Tourrette-Levens | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Ville fr Tourrette-Levens (06).svg |
Arrondissement: | Nice |
Canton: | Tourrette-Levens |
Insee: | 06147 |
Postal Code: | 06690 |
Demonym: | Tourrettans |
Mayor: | Bertrand Gasiglia[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
Coordinates: | 43.7875°N 7.2767°W |
Elevation M: | 390 |
Elevation Min M: | 160 |
Elevation Max M: | 845 |
Area Km2: | 16.5 |
Tourrette-Levens (in French pronounced as /turɛt ləvɛ̃s/; Occitan (post 1500);: Torreta de Levens; Italian: Torretta Levenzo) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.[2]
Tourrette-Levens 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: Aspremont, Carros, Castagniers, Coaraze, Colomars, Duranus, Èze, Falicon, La Gaude, Lantosque, Levens, La Roquette-sur-Var, Saint-Blaise, Saint-Jeannet and Utelle.[3]