Tourtour

Tourtour
Tourtour
	The Romanesque St Denis Church in Tourtour
	Coat of arms
	Location of Tourtour
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Var
Arrondissement	Draguignan
Canton	Salernes
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Pierre Jugy
Area 1	28.69 km2 (11.08 sq mi)
Population (2006)	536
• Density	19/km2 (48/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

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.