Jump to content

Falicon

Coordinates:43°45′00″N7°16′49″E/ 43.75°N 7.2803°E

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can helpexpand this article with text translated fromthe corresponding articlein French.(December 2008)Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Viewa machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, likeDeepLorGoogle Translate,is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
Youmustprovidecopyright attributionin theedit summaryaccompanying your translation by providing aninterlanguage linkto the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary isContent in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Falicon]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template{{Translated|fr|Falicon}}to thetalk page.
For more guidance, seeWikipedia:Translation.

Falicon
Commune
The church in Falicon
Coat of arms
Location of Falicon
Falicon Show map of France Falicon Show map of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Coordinates:43°45′00″N7°16′49″E/ 43.75°N 7.2803°E/43.75; 7.2803
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement	Nice
Canton	Tourrette-Levens
Intercommunality	Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur
Government
• Mayor(2020–2026)	Anaïs Tosel^[1]
Area ¹	5.17 km²(2.00 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	2,111
• Density	410/km²(1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00(CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00(CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	06060/06950
Elevation	103–581 m (338–1,906 ft) (avg. 300 m or 980 ft)
¹French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km²(0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Falicon(French pronunciation:[falikɔ̃];Italian:Falicone) is acommunein theAlpes-Maritimes departmentin southeasternFrance.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	715	—
1975	877	+2.96%
1982	1,065	+2.81%
1990	1,498	+4.36%
1999	1,644	+1.04%
2009	1,919	+1.56%
2014	1,969	+0.52%
2020	2,053	+0.70%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Tourism

Falicon is one of sixteen villages grouped together by theMétropole Nice Côte d'Azurtourist department as theRoute des Villages Perchés(Route of Perched Villages). The others are:Aspremont,Carros,Castagniers,Coaraze,Colomars,Duranus,Èze,La Gaude,Lantosque,Levens,La Roquette-sur-Var,Saint-Blaise,Saint-Jeannet,Tourrette-LevensandUtelle.^[4]

Twin towns — sister cities

Falicon istwinnedwith:

Merchweiler,Germany (1987)
Castellino Tanaro,Italy (2004)

See also

Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department

References

^"Répertoire national des élus: les maires".data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises(in French). 2 December 2020.
^"Populations légales 2021"(in French).The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.28 December 2023.
^Population en historique depuis 1968,INSEE
^"The route of perched villages"(PDF).Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. 2013.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toFalicon.

Communesof theAlpes-Maritimesdepartment

^pref:prefecture
^subpr:subprefecture

ThisAlpes-Maritimesgeographical article is astub.You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Falicon&oldid=1241998822"

Hidden categories: