La Brigue
La Brigue is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. La Brigue became part of France after World War II, when Italy was forced to hand it over in September 1947 under the terms of the Peace of Paris.
- Type: Village with 719 residents
- Description: commune in Alpes-Maritimes, France
- Also known as: “Briga-Marittima”, “Brigue”, “Brigue de Nice”, “La Brigue de Nice”, “La Brigue-de-Nice”, “Ла Бриг”, “Ла Бриґ”, “Ла Бріг”, “Ла Бріґ”, “Ла-Бриґ”, “Ла-Бріг”, “Ла-Бріґ”, and “ブリーガ”
- Postal code: 06430
- Neighbors: Limone Piemonte
Places of Interest
Highlights: Chapelle Saint-Michel de La Brigue and Chapelle des Pénitents blancs de La Brigue.
Chapelle Saint-Michel de La Brigue
Church
Photo: Tangopaso, Public domain.Chapelle des Pénitents blancs de La Brigue
Church
Photo: Tangopaso, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mine de Vallauria.
Mine de Vallauria
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.La Brigue
- Categories: commune of France, border city, and locality
- Location: La Brigue, Arrondissement of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.06186° or 44° 3′ 43″ north
Longitude
7.61589° or 7° 36′ 57″ east
Population
719
Elevation
777 metres (2,549 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FR IGU
Open location code
8FP93J68+P9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“La Brigue” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “La Brigue”
- Albanian: “La Brigue”
- Arabic: “لا بريجو”
- Aragonese: “La Briga”
- Aragonese: “La Brigue”
- Armenian: “Լա Բրիգ”
- Arpitan: “La Brigue”
- Asturian: “La Brigue”
- Azerbaijani: “La-Briq”
- Bambara: “La Brigue”
- Basque: “La Brigue”
- Bavarian: “La Brigue”
- Breton: “Briga”
- Breton: “La Brigue”
- Buginese: “La Brigue”
- Cajun French: “La Brigue”
- Catalan: “A Briga”
- Catalan: “La Briga”
- Cebuano: “La Brigue”
- Chechen: “Ла-БгӀиг”
- Chinese: “拉布里格”
- Chinese: “拉布里盖”
- Corsican: “La Brigue”
- Croatian: “La Brigue”
- Czech: “La Brigue”
- Danish: “La Brigue”
- Dutch: “La Brigue”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لا بريجو”
- Esperanto: “La Brigue”
- Estonian: “La Brigue”
- Faroese: “La Brigue”
- Finnish: “La Brigue”
- French: “La Brigue”
- Friulian: “La Brigue”
- Galician: “La Brigue”
- German: “La Brigue”
- Hungarian: “La Brigue”
- Icelandic: “La Brigue”
- Ido: “La Brigue”
- Indonesian: “La Brigue”
- Interlingua: “La Brigue”
- Interlingue: “La Brigue”
- Irish: “La Brigue”
- Italian: “Briga Marittima”
- Jamaican Creole English: “La Brigue”
- Japanese: “ラ・ブリギュ”
- Jèrriais: “La Brigue”
- Kabyle: “La Brigue”
- Kalaallisut: “La Brigue”
- Kongo: “La Brigue”
- Korean: “라브리그”
- Kurdish: “La Brigue”
- Ladin: “La Brigue”
- Latin: “Briga Nicaeensium”
- Latvian: “La Brigue”
- Ligurian: “Briga”
- Limburgan: “La Brigue”
- Lithuanian: “La Brigue”
- Lombard: “Briga Marìtima”
- Low German: “La Brigue”
- Luxembourgish: “La Brigue”
- Mainfränkisch: “La Brigue”
- Malagasy: “La Brigue”
- Malay: “La Brigue”
- Min Nan Chinese: “La Brigue”
- Minangkabau: “La Brigue”
- Neapolitan: “La Brigue”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Brigue”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Brigue”
- Occitan (post 1500): “La Briga”
- Papiamento: “La Brigue”
- Picard: “La Brigue”
- Piemontese: “Briga Marìtima”
- Polish: “La Brigue”
- Portuguese: “La Brigue”
- Prussian: “La Brigue”
- Romagnol: “La Brigue”
- Romanian: “La Brigue”
- Romansh: “La Brigue”
- Russian: “Ла-Бриг”
- Sardinian: “La Brigue”
- Scots: “La Brigue”
- Scottish Gaelic: “La Brigue”
- Serbian: “La Brigue”
- Sicilian: “La Brigue”
- Slovak: “La Brigue”
- Spanish: “La Brigue”
- Swahili: “La Brigue”
- Swedish: “La Brigue”
- Swiss German: “La Brigue”
- Tatar: “Ла-Бриг”
- Turkish: “La Brigue”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Бриг”
- Urdu: “لا بریگوی”
- Uzbek: “La Brigue”
- Venetian: “La Brigue”
- Vietnamese: “La Brigue”
- Vlaams: “La Brigue”
- Volapük: “La Brigue”
- Walloon: “La Brigue”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Brigue”
- Welsh: “La Brigue”
- Wolof: “La Brigue”
- Yue Chinese: “La Brigue”
- Zulu: “La Brigue”
- “La Brigue”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Mararé and Meurgiora.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Lavoir and Fontaine Vieille.
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