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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]
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 ...
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.
The arrondissement of Annecy is an arrondissement of France in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 77 communes . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its population is 293,040 (2021), and its area is 1,253.9 km 2 (484.1 sq mi).
In Haute-Savoie, only Annecy and the Val d'Abondance, with the appellation Pays de la Vallée d'Abondance, in the province of Chablais, have been designated as "Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire." [23] Savoie and Haute-Savoie are the holders of the Trophée National des Départements Fleuris, an award bestowed upon only 20 departments in ...
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.