Seaside Resort Museum
The museum is located in Villa Eugénie, built in honour of Napoleon III's wife. But Eugénie de Montijo, who was to open the summer season of 1868, never came: the story has it that her absence was due to a quarrel with Napoleon. The villa now houses a museum with a retrospective of local history, principally devoted to the life of the seaside resort in the late 19 and early 20C.
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Fenestrez Observatory
Following the example of Grand Colombier, the Fenestrez Observatory offers beautiful panoramas from 900 m high. Those visitors who venture out to this spot may admire the Lakes of Bourget and Annecy and slightly further away, the Alps.
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Chablais Museum
Situated in the Sonnaz Castle (17C), this museum brings together a series of testimonies of local history, remains of the lacustrian period and Gallo-Roman objets found in excavations of ancient Thonon.
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Basilica of St Saviour
The entrance has a Romanesque porch crowned by a flamboyant Gothic gable. Built from the 12 to the 16C, the church is dissymmetrical: the right-hand side is Romanesque and the left-hand side, chancel and transept are flamboyant. Du Guesclin's heart is kept in the left aisle of the transept. The modern stained-glass windows were made by the Barillet workshop.
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