Blotties the ones against the others, its secular houses with sat stone and the roofs ochres of Roman tiles launch a challenge at the time which passes.
Historic insight
Indeed, the first inhabitants of this area were the Ligurians, some eight hundred years before our era. They knew copper and bronzes. The breeding of the herds was their great occupation because the broken relief and a ground poor bus rocky did not allow a prosperous agriculture. Mixed with the Celts, our Ligurians fell under the domination from Eguituris, robust and nimble mountain dwellers, liking over all hunting and the combat. During several decades, they fight against the Romans but are overcome by the Auguste emperor. The area becomes a Roman province and traces raised in the village confirm this established fact.
Third at the fifth century, Christianity is established in Gaule. And Touët concerns évêché Glandèves (near to Entrevaux).
Invasions of Lombards then Buckwheats. Their passages remain names such as Maurin, Maurel, meaning "black-hearth, black". Buckwheats were definitively driven out places by the count of Provence during the tenth century. In reward, its vassal accepted grounds and thus Touët was allocated to the count de Beuil.
At the thirteenth century, population of the village east of approximately four hundred hearts which are protected behind a drawbridge, grouping around the small castle pertaining for half to the count de Provence and the count de Beuil.
A commandery of Templiers, installed in Rigaud - another village with five kilometers from here - playing a role of lords and regarding Touëtois as serfs, perceives said and adapts goods a little everywhere with the neighbourhoods. Templiers even made pay the religious services then celebrated in the Our-Lady-Holy-Marie vault built with the twelfth century under the aegis of the abbey of Lérins.
In addition to the natural bad weather ransacking the cultures of the valley of the VAr at the quatorzième century, the villagers must undergo the atrocities of the Black Death which decimates the population, leaving a hundred people in life.
The village follows the history of the house of Beuil and, consequently, becomes property of the house of Savoy into 1388 before being that of the States sardes later.
During the eighteenth century, the count de Beuil having been carried out, his castles flarings and its goods confiscated, the village is pledged to various lords whose last were the counts Claretti. During these successive occupations, wars, plunderings and fires multiply.
In 1793, Touët becomes French but becomes again sarde in 1814. It does not remain any more that forty inhabitants and misery is large. One period of stagnation follows which exaspère their bitterness. In 1860, Touëtois vote unanimously for the annexation in France.
The Desired abbot Niel, born in 1814 in Touët where his/her father followed the occupation of notary and the function of mayor under the Consulate, worked in an intensive way for fastening in France. Deputy, inspector of Academy, it is withdrawn in Touët in 1871. Its "municipal" generosity the fact of taking part financially in the construction of a bridge on the VAr to replace the antique footbridge, like in the first work connecting the top with the bottom of the village. From where the avenue Desired-Niel completed in 1890. It leaves our world in 1873, bequeathing several of its goods to its village, as well as an annual rent intended for the construction of a school for the girls, the boys alone being provided education for hitherto.
The railroad serves Touët in 1888. A motor-road connects Nice to Villars in 1860. Then in Touët in 1903. In 1908, Touët-of-Beuil becomes Touët-on-VAr, avoiding a certain confusion in the distribution of the mail. Finally connected to the coast, the village is modernized little by little.
The development of tourism, the facility of the communications and the more and more pronounced taste of the holiday makers for the sports of snow made of Touët an ideal relay between Nice and the stations of winter, as well as a vacation resort snuffed by the fond of delicacies sun holiday makers. To about fifty kilometers of the beaches of the coast, the back-country niçois proposes to you its calms in a natural site.
The village is located on the trunk road 202, Nice-Worthy axis. One finds it at the exit of the throats of Mescla and the entry of the throats of Cians.
Picturesque circuit TOUET - Throats of DALUIS-Throats of Cians-touet is one of most famous of the area. Ski resorts (Valberg - Beuil - Allos...).
Le haut-village, construit au Moyen Age, offre aux visiteurs ses maisons aux greniers ouverts au sud qui lui donnent un aspect tibétain, (altitude 380 m). « Les granges » sont devenues le centre de la commune avec de nombreux commerces et des habitations alignés le long de la RN 202 (330 m).
LES LOISIRS
Pêche à la truite dans le Var, le Cians et dans de nombreux vallons rebondissants (alevinage abondant - cartes sur place).
Chasse (société sur place).
Promenades à pied vers des villages situés à plus de 1000 m d'altitude (THIERY, LIEUCHE, PIERLAS) en partant du haut-village.
Marches à pied ou VTT vers ROUREBEL, ASCROS, LA PENNE, SAINT-ANTONIN en traversant le pont sur le Var. Randonnées VIT vers RIGAUD, VILLARS, MALAUSSENE, MASSIONS, PUGET-THENIERS, ENTREVAUX, ANNOT en partant de la RN 202.
Terrains de basket, volley, mini-basket éclairés et à l'abri sous la halle polyvalente.
Terrain de tennis éclairé. Aire de football pour tournois de sixte. Jardin d'enfants. Table de ping-pong - deux billards.Pétanque (plusieurs concours par an, terrain éclairé).
Recherche de fossiles (certains vallons calcaires pétrifient très rapidement des objets divers).
A voir :
Eglise St Martin construite dans le haut-village à cheval sur un vallon (1690).
Galerie des Présidents de la République, à la mairie.
ND du Cians. Chapelle du XII°
