Large borough of mountain, lengthened on a calcareous spur in the medium of the valley of Vésubie, this village was destroyed many times by the earthquakes.
Vast commune, Lantosque includes/understands some hamlets: Loda, St-Colomban and Pelasque.
While walking you in its lanes, you will discover high old houses, out of stone of size which will let to you admire some beautiful carved doors and of picturesque arched passages. Surl has place of the Town hall throne an old fountain of 1866.
You will be able to visit the Church St-Pons (owner of Lantosque), the Vault of the penitent blacks, the Sanctuary of Our-Lady of Balma, the cave sanctuary of Vésubie which accomodates every year a procession composed by the penitent white of the Brotherhood of the Children of Marie, and the Museum of Poggioli.
Lantosque proposes to you many loisirs:tennis, fishings, excursions equestrian and pedestrian, cinema and in estival period of animations of which the festival of the Ste-Anne on July 26.
You will find with your disposition:2 hotels, 2 camp-sites and a lodging.
Dominating Vésubie, A horse over its rock, It is Lantosque the pretty one, Which draws up its proud bell-tower ": this first verse of the "Lantosquoise" tells perfectly the picturesque situation this large borough of mountain lengthened on a rock bar in the medium of the valley of Vésubie.
Several times destroyed by earthquakes in the previous centuries, the village seems still today in unstable position on its headland.
By borrowing the principal street which climbs in staircase, you will discover high stone houses old of size or coated hot colors nicely last as of charming lanes which go up or go down.
You will admire some beautiful carved doors (of which one of swatiska), the arched passages and a superb old fountain gone back to 1866.
If you go up to the Saint-Sulpice church, at the top of the village, whose broad frontage and the carved door go back to the 17th century, you will be rewarded by a unspoilable view on the roofs of old Roman tiles.
Also make a turn in the hamlets of Loda, St Colomba and especially Pelasque, from where one discovers superb panoramas on the throats of Vésubie: you will fall under the charm from these some detached houses in the medium from splendid pastoral landscapes, far from all and that obviously nothing will be able to disturb.
To visit:
Church St Sulpice. Vault of the penitent blacks (opposite the town hall)
Leisures:
Pedestrian excursions. Tennis. Horsemanship. Climbing. Fish. Cinema. Estival animations. Celebrates of Ste Anne on July 26.
Lodgings:
2 Hotels. 2 camp-sites. Lodging 49 places.
