Explorar Annecy

The Palais de l'Isle is a medieval fortified house on a small rock island in the Thiou canal, in the old town of Annecy. Over the centuries it held a mint, a courthouse and the town prison, used until 1864; classified as a historic monument in 1900, it now shows an exhibition on Annecy's architecture and heritage, and its old cells and chapel can be visited.

The Château d'Annecy is a castle on a rocky spur above the old town of Annecy, built from the 12th to the 16th century as the residence of the Counts of Geneva and later the Dukes of Genevois-Nemours. Bought by the town in 1953, it has housed the town museum since 1956, with collections of archaeology, fine art, ethnology and natural history.

Lake Annecy is a lake of glacial origin in the Alps of Haute-Savoie, about 14 km long, formed some 18,000 years ago as the large Alpine glaciers melted. Annecy lies at its northern end, where the Thiou drains it, villages line its shores between the Bauges and Bornes mountains, and a cycle path runs along its western side.