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Places of Interest
Seaside Resort Museum <!-- Museums isempty -->

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.

Fenestrez Observatory <!-- UrbanAndNaturalAreas isempty -->

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.

Chablais Museum <!-- Museums isempty -->

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.

Basilica of St Saviour <!-- ReligiousBuildings isempty -->

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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