Tourtour

Tourtour
The Romanesque St Denis Church in Tourtour The Romanesque St Denis Church in Tourtour
Coat of arms of Tourtour Coat of arms
Tourtour
Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region Tourtour
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Var
Arrondissement	Draguignan
Canton	Salernes
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Pierre Jugy
Area1	28.69 km2 (11.08 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	536
• Density	19/km2 (48/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	83139 / 83690
Elevation	375–904 m (1,230–2,966 ft) (avg. 635 m or 2,083 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Tourtour is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France ("The most beautiful villages of France") association.

Geography

Called "the village in the sky of Provence" (le village dans le ciel de Provence), Tourtour overlooks a large part of Provence from the town of Fréjus along the Mediterranean coast in the east to the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, a favorite subject of the painter Paul Cézanne, in the west.

In popular culture

The Bastide de Tourtour, a local hotel, was prominently featured in the film Day of the Jackal and the 2010 ITV series "Monte Carlo or bust".

Sister cities

• Portaria, Greece

See also

• Communes of the Var department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Village de Tourtour
• (German) Pictures Tourtour