Tends (the Alpes-Maritimes)

Tende (in Ligure/Royasque/Italian Tendasque and in Tenda ) is a common French, located in the department of the the Alpes-Maritimes and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure. To pronounce “Tande”; its inhabitants is the Tendasques .

By the Law of the September 15th 1947, Official journal of the September 16th 1947 with effect with the September 17th 1947, the commune of Tends is created “starting from a foreign part”; the Code INSEE 06 163 thus does not correspond to the alphabetical order.

Geography

Exceptional territory of mountain and high mountain, the immense East-West rectangular territory is cut in its North-South medium by the high valley of the Roya which receives in Tende its affluent, the Réfréi.

The Italian border limit north and is commune by a line of high tops (more than twenty tops exceeding 2 000 meters, culminating with the summits of Agnel, 2 852 meters, with the breach of the Col of Tightens with 1 871 meters).

The Western part of the valley of Roya is practically occupied by the unit known as of the “ Valley of the Wonders ” and of the solid mass of the Mount Bégo (see hereafter).

In the east, the rock solid masses decrease of the Italian peaks (more 2 000 meters) with the valley (approximately 1 000 meters). One can admire there splendid forests of Mélèze S (established).

It is impossible to describe by simple words the sites and the panoramas of this vast territory, as well as the excursions and climbings which it allows: the unit is often exceptional, always remarkable.

History

Cité au 11th century under its current term, Tende concerned the county of Vintimille. In 1261, Pierre-Guillaume de Vintimille, lord of Tightens, married the sister of the young Greek emperor of the East, Jean Lascaris, and took the name of Vintimille-Lascaris. In 1581, the county of Tends was acquired by the Maison of Savoy.

In 1860, the commune of Tends, as that of Aspires to It, was not included/understood in the territories conceded in France in the treated of Turin. It is with the peace treaty of Paris of the February 10th 1947 that these territories pass under French sovereignty.

The commune of Tends is vastest of the department.

Since 1967, professor Henry de Lumley and his teams take readings and mouldings of the rocks engraved since prehistory on the natural sites of the Vallée of the Wonders and the valley of Fontanalbe (mouldings exposed to the departmental Museum of the Wonders to Tends).

The tendasque one

The tendasque one is a speech Royasque and thus Ligure, one can find words like:

To note that the tendasque one, being of a frontier country, as follows finds also these roots in France:

Best to learn the tendasque one to speak with old but Tendasque is to go as its language is difficult to tame.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Three hydroelectric stations
Breeding of bovines and sheep
Appendix of the CHU of Nice
Agriculture bio and reasoned
Cheeses, honey and jams
Old crystal mine.

Places and monuments

One will retain some points, in addition to the zone of the Valley of the Wonders:

the source of the Roya: to the foot of the collar of (one of the rivers shortest of France Tends: 45 km in France)
the spectacular road of the collar of Tighten and those, picturesque, of Granile and the Small valley of Réfréi * the small valleys of Casterino and of the Mine (IF), going up to the splendid site of Castérino, with the doors of the National park of Mercantour
the many caves and pits of which that of Piaggia Bella (one of deepest of the world with - 850 meters) and the source of Fouige (145 m of development)
the cave of the Heretics, which was used as refuge to the calvinists in XVIe century;
the National park of Mercantour, marvellous biotope where fauna and the flora reveal species often rare or endemic, crossed by the GR. 52
the extraordinary of old city, dark and severe site in its mountainous environment where field terraces go up very high. By Saint-Dalmas-of-Tightens, access to Castérino and the lake of Mesces, by the Vallée of the Wonders, of Fontanalbe, Valmasque and the National park of Mercantour.
Old collegial Notre-Dame (XVIe S.)

Activities and trade

Although Tende has bars mainly (Bar of the center, Bar of the sports, at Jacky…), Tende has also a nursery school, an elementary school, a college (with St Dalmas de Tende) with its own school bus service, a gendarmerie, a post office, a camp-site, two banks, a media library, two museums, a swimming pool, a cinema, three stations of railroad (Tends, Saint Dalmas de Tende and Vievola), three baker's and confectioner's shops, four restaurants, two hairdressing salons… The commune of Tends proposes: ski, parapente, excursions, via feratas…

Demonstrations

* 1st week end of July: Employers' festival of the saint éloi.

With the program:

- Fires and festival of Saint Eloi

- Blessing of fires of St Eloi with the participation of the folk group of the old man Tends.

- Fireworks.

- large ball-evening with orchestra

- CORSO

- Cavalcade accompanied by brass bands and folk groups, through the lanes of the old man-village.

- blessing of the mules places collegial followed mass of Saint Eloi.

- handing-over of the prices places Town hall followed by an aperitif of honor.

- demonstrations and representations given by the various folk and musical groups.

- mass for the late ones of the Brotherhood of Saint Eloi in the Collegial one.

Organized by the brotherhood of St Eloi, the Town hall of Tends and the Festival Committee.

Personalities related to the commune

the type-setter Jouan Nicola is deceased there in 1974

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