The town is built on the summit of a 310 m high conical hill or monticule.

Unluckily however, our Monticule is too small.

The stone monticule probably referred to the Greek Orthodox monastery of Our Lady of the Light that was built at that time.

Winning Breeder: Monticule (KY)

Bred by Dr. Gary B. Knapp's Monticule Farms in Lexington, Kentucky, he won his first five race starts.

You have read Dufrenoy in a hurry, I think, and added to the difficulty--it is the whole hill or "colline" which is composed of tuff with cross-stratification; the central boss or "monticule" is simply trachyte.

Cappouge could also come from "Capo poggio" or "Cape of the Hill or of the Monticule", which matches the current name of the cape, "Râs ech-Chaq' ha", which means "Cape of the Stone Monticule."