Belvédère

coat of arms

Belvédère is a commune. It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the south of France.

Belvédère Media

• Vallée des Merveilles 103.jpg

  "Le Sorcier " one of the 30,000 carvings in the vallée de Merveilles

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  Belvédère from Mont Pela looking north up the Vésubie valley

• Портрет Корнелии Салонины.jpg

  Cornelia Salonina took the waters nearby.

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  Migrations of the main column of the Visigoths passed through

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  Boda de Marozia con Hugo de Arlés. Wedding of Marozia. Incisione da F Bertolini La Storiua di Roma Le Nozze di Marozia e Ugo di provenza

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  The Battle of Magenta in 1859 led to the return of the Comte de Nice to France on condition of a favourable plebiscite

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  The tramway from Plan du Var to Saint-Martin-Vesubie, which ran from 1909 to 1929 and transformed access from Belvedere to the coast

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  La redoute des Trois communes (2080 m) to the East and above Belvédère, scene of the last battle of WWII on French soil

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  Remnants of war still in evidence over 50 years after the battle on the Massif de l'Authion above Belvédère

Other websites

• (in English and French) & (Occitan) Dances and traditional musics in Belvédère : farandole and passa-carriera
• (in English and French) & (Occitan) Chimes from County of Nice : tirignoun (chime) from Belvédère.