La Trinité (Municipality, Alpes-Maritimes, France)

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Flag of La Trinité - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 3 April 2023

• Presentation of La Trinité
• Flag of La Trinité

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• Alpes-Maritimes (Department, France)

Presentation of La Trinité

La Trinité (10,276 inhabitants in 2021; 1,490 ha) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department.

A former hamlet of the commune of Èze from which it was detached in 1818, first called La Trinité-Victor in honor of Victor-Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia, before simply becoming La Trinité in 1951, the commune concentrated the development of its urbanization in the plain bordering the river Paillon de Nice, located to the west of the town with agricultural activities.

La Trinité has a neo-classical style church (which would be a copy of the Gran Madre di Dio church in Turin), a fountain dated 1654, quiet squares, a few colorful facades repainted in dapper colors, and even
ruins of a medieval castle. The sanctuary of Notre-Dame de Laghet, which is reached by a small road through the olive trees, is a monastery which was built in the 17th century, following the reported appearance of miracles in this place. A “miraculous” reputation that only grew, until it became today the main center of pilgrimage in eastern Provence and northern Italy.

With the impressive development of the Nice metropolitan area, La Trinité became a working-class, industrial suburb of Nice, with a habitat combining the traditional and the modern.

Olivier Touzeau, 3 April 2023

Flag of La Trinité

The flag of La Trinité is white with the coat of arms and the name of the commune: photo (2022), photo (2022).

The coat of arms is blazoned:
Party per pale: 1. Gules a pinetree Argent on a terrace in base Vert, surmounted by wavy bars gemel Argent, and a chief Gules a cross Argent, 2. Azure a moutain of two hilllocks Vert debruised by a monastery Argent roofed Gules, all on a bridge Argent of two arches spanning a river Azure and banks Vert, the chief tierced palewise of Azure, Argent and Gules.

Olivier Touzeau, 3 April 2023