La Turbie is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, bordering the Principality of Monaco to its southeast. It is best known for the Trophy of Augustus, the large Roman monument built beside the Via Julia Augusta to celebrate the victory of Augustus over the Ligurian tribes of the area, and for the stones of that ruin used in the village itself. In the Middle Ages, when it was called Turbia, it was mainly under the Republic of Genoa, and Dante named it as the western limit of Italian Liguria. It later passed between Savoy and Monaco, and its local dialect is now nearly extinct after the 1860 inclusion of the County of Nice in France. The Nice to La Turbie hillclimb, first run in 1897, made the commune a cradle of automobile mountain racing and later hosted the final stage of Paris-Nice, and AS Monaco has trained there since 1981. Rudolf Nureyev had a residence in the commune.
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La Turbie (Wikipedia)
Part Of: France, Lead
is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France.
On Continent: Europe, Lead, continent
It borders the Principality of Monaco, which is southeast of it.
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