Belvédère

This charming small village is on D2565, between Nice and Saint-Martin-Vésubie, opposite Roquebillière. Drawing its name from Latin bellumvidere, beautiful point of view, perched at 838 m high, it deserves its name well.

• Points of interest

The center of the village with its small narrow streets, its curious parish church Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul, of the XVII century, flanked in one of its angles, a quadrangular stone bell-tower made up of tuff, surmounted by a lantern.

Inside, one can admire many liturgical objects of processions, reliquaries, a splendid pulpit out of wooden painted of XII century.

Around, four restored vaults: Planet, Saint-Grat, Saint-Blaise and Saint-Anthony. The Cooperative dairy, located at the center of the village, became a museum of Milk, where one can see all the old ustensils formerly being used for manufacture of milk and cheese.

For the visit,  address to Tourist office.

At the end of each summer, in general the last weekend of September, a great village festival celebrates the end of transhumance and the return of the herds, with fifres and tambourines, exposure of the old trades of formerly, blacksmiths, basket makers, marshal-shoeing and of the collective banquets.

• The valley of Gordolasque

A valley of an incredible beauty, located upstream village of View-point.

It is one of the most wild entries and most beautiful of the National park of Mercantour.

It offers an easy access in direction of the Valley of the Wonders (engravings rupestral) but it also makes it possible to discover more the high summits of the department (Malédie, Tête of Basto, Grand Capelet, Clapier).

Many excursions are possible at the beginning of the Valley of Gordolasque, in the National park of Mercantour and at the beginning of the village on marked out paths which all are indexed on chart IGN Top 25 Valley of Vésubie.

The National park of Mercantour put on line a new Internet site which presents ideas of excursions to be practised around the solid mass Mercantour/Marittime.

An search engine makes it possible to choose excursions by solid mass (9 excursions for our valley, around Boréon, of the Madonna of Fenestrates and View-point), according to various selection criteria.

Summer

• Walks and excursions in the National park of Mercantour
• The Valley of the Wonders
• Walks on horse
• Walk in the barouche
• Trout fishing in river and lakes of mountain
• VTT Climbing
• Fauna and flora

Winter

• Walks and excursions in rackets
• Walks and ramble
• Ski touring
• Ski touring
• Activities in the Valley of Vésubie

Belvédère

• The perched village
• The valley of Gordolasque, Gate iof the entry of the National park of Mercantour and the Valley of the Wonders.

Leave to discover the village Belvédère:

• The Saint-Roch vault

St Roch was the protective saint of the plague.

• The vault of Planet

The vault of Planet bears this name because it is built on a flat place.

• The Saint-Anthony vault

The vault St Antoine would date from the Middle Ages. It shelters three representations of Saint-Anthony: of Padoue,  Anchorite,  Hermit. The vault was devoted to a saint healer who protected from the epidemics.

• The laundrette

The laundrette is a public place. The laundrette is also a basin, cover or not, supplied with l' running water and in which one can wash and rinse the linen.

• The street of the Mortar

You can imagine that the street of the mortar bears this name because formerly, there were “mourtaire”, small guns which drew from balls etc…