Beuil

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Nearby:  | 2 km | 20 km | Entrevaux 37 km | Guillaumes 20 km | Isola 38 km | Nice 73 km (airport) | Péone 15 km | Plan-du-Var 49 km | Puget-Théniers 30 km | Roubion 12 km | Roure 22 km | Saint Sauveur-sur-Tinée 24 km | Valberg 6 km |

Below: | History | O.T. | Dates | Transportation | Sports | Hiking | Lodging Hotels |

The village houses are steep-roofed alpine style, grouped tightly around the 17th-century church, and there is a small museum in the village.

History

Name
First record, 13th century Castrum de Bellio; 1570: Bueilh.

Beuil was originally a Roman village, and during medieval times the village followed the history of the Grimaldis.

Office de Tourisme

Tel: 04 93 02 32 58; Fax: 04 93 02 33 35
Email: beuil@yahoo.fr

Dates

Fête: first Sunday following: 24 June; 26 July; 15 Aug.
Foire: 9 Sept; 3 Oct.
Market: Sunday

Transportation

Bus. See Travel-Bus page 13 (Guillaumes).

Sports

Beuil is especially popular for winter sports, including cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, and even a ski jump.

With all the rivers in the area, Beuil is also a good starting point for fishing.

Hiking

Maps:

IGN (1/25,000) #3640 OT "Haut Cians, Valberg"

There's plenty of good hiking here. The GR52A [GR] passes through the village, going northwest through Péone and Châteauuef-d'Entraunes and east to Roubion, Roure and St. Sauveur-sur-Tinée. A 5-km hike north up the upper Cians river will take you to the GR5 trail that crosses east-west through the Parc National du Mercantour.

Many other trails in the mountains closely around Beuil offer opportunities for loop hikes through beautiful larch forests. There are a couple of dozen peaks higher than 2000 m, and many deep valleys carved by swift mountain streams, so the hiking isn't easy.

Mt. Mounier (2817 m), about 10 km north, is inside the boundaries of the Parc du Mercantour, and a hike up there from Beuil would be memorable.

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