Annecy

Annecy, ARA, France
Est. 23.3km / 1 hr 42 mins

Annecy - Cya On The Road

The Guilde Des Voyageurs Curieux is delighted to offer you an audio guide!The singular destiny of a town with distant origins, exploiting all the resources of a site blessed by nature, knowing how to seize every opportunity and pass through the centuries while always remaining of its time. A key town at the mouth of a lake on a transverse axis of the major Italian-Geneva routes, it is located at the junction of two areas: the pre-Alpine mountains with the Bornes and Bauges massifs on the one hand, and the lowlands with the Albanian foreland on the other.Its location is particularly well endowed, with a lake that has become a symbol, the Thiou, a former industrial route that has become a tourist attraction, the vast Semno forest that has remained untouched, the spacious Fins plain that is perfectly suited to unrestricted urban development, and finally the edge of the Annecy-le-Vieux hillside, a pleasant limit to the northern landscape.As for its history, its proximity to Geneva was the source of the town's successive promotions, first to become the capital of the county of Geneva when its counts were expelled from their town in the 13th century, then to become a bishopric after the triumph of Calvinism in the 16th century.Established as the capital of an appanage of the House of Savoy in the 15th century, it underwent a radical conversion at the beginning of the 19th century, becoming an active industrial centre: a vocation that was to become even more pronounced in the following century without detracting from its tourist boom. Enjoy the rest of your visit!Do you like this guide? Then share it on all your social networks!Would you like to correct and add to the comments, or add stages?  Then join this collaborative, voluntary project by writing to boite151@hotmail.fr!

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