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The Hôtel de Ville 1914 map, French edition. Le vieil Annecy ("Old Annecy"; not to be confused with Annecy-le-Vieux, formerly a neighboring town but now merged into Annecy), was a settlement from the time of the Romans. [6] Annecy was the court of the counts of Geneva [6] or Genevois from the 10th century. [7] It passed to the counts of Savoy ...
Château d'Annecy. The Château d'Annecy is a restored castle which dominates the old French town of Annecy in the Haute-Savoie département. It was bought by the town, restored and transformed into a museum, le musée-château d'Annecy. The castle is listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1959. [1]
In the 1840s, when Annecy was part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the city council decided to commission a more substantial town hall. The site they selected was on the lakeside adjacent to Lake Annecy. After the proposed design for the new building was approved by the council in 1846, construction work started in 1847.
It is named after the city of Annecy, which marks the start of the Thiou, Lake Annecy's outflow river. [1] [2]: 958 It is the third-largest lake in France, after the Lac du Bourget and Lac de Grand-Lieu, if the French part of Lake Geneva, which is shared between Switzerland and France, is excluded.
Annecy-le-Vieux (French pronunciation: [ansi lÉ™ vjø]) was a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it merged into the commune of Annecy. [2] It was the fourth-largest commune in Haute-Savoie in terms of population, and was located on the northeastern shore ...
The Château de Menthon is a medieval castle located in the commune of Menthon-Saint-Bernard, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of Annecy in the Haute-Savoie department of France. Standing on a 200 metres (660 ft) tall rock, its stone towers loom over Lake Annecy, the Roc de Chère National Nature Reserve, and Menthon-Saint-Bernard.
The arrondissement of Annecy was created in 1860. [5] In June 2023 it lost two communes to the arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois. [3]As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements.
Annecy Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Annecy) is a Roman Catholic church located in Annecy, France. The cathedral is a national monument. The church was erected at the beginning of the 16th century by Jacques Rossel as a chapel for a Franciscan priory. During the French Revolution, the building was used as a temple of the Goddess ...