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Haute-Savoie (French: [ot savwa]; Arpitan: Savouè d'Amont or Hiôta-Savouè; 'Upper Savoy') is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy. Its prefecture is Annecy. To the north is Lake Geneva; to the south and southeast are Mont Blanc and the Aravis mountain range. It holds its name from the Savoy historical region, as does the department of Savoie, located south of Haute-Savoie. In 2019, it had a population of 826,094. Its subpref…

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Chateau Menthon Saint Bernard
Chateau Menthon Saint Be…
Lake Annecy (French: Lac d'Annecy, French: [lak dansi]) is a perialpine lake in Haute-Savoie in France. It is named after the city of Annecy, which marks the start of the Thiou, Lake Annecy's outflow river. 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. It is known as "Europe's cleanest lake" because of strict environmental regulations introduced in the 1960s. …
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Mer de Glace
Mer de Glace
Le Montenvers
The Mer de Glace ("Sea of Ice") is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps. It is 7.5 km long and deep but, when all its tributary glaciers are taken into account, it can be regarded as the longest and largest glacier in France, and the second longest in the Alps after the Aletsch Glacier. Geography The glacier lies above the Chamonix valley. The pressure within the ice is known to reach at least 30 atmospheres. The Mer de Glace can be consid…
wikipedia/Mer_de_Glace
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Salève
Salève
Beaumont
The Salève (French: [salɛv]), or Mont Salève, is a mountain of the French Prealps located in the department of Haute-Savoie in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is also called the "Balcony of Geneva" (French: Balcon de Genève). Geography Geographically, the Salève is a mountain of the French Prealps located in the Haute-Savoie department, but geologically a part of the Jura chain, as the Vuache is. Below the Salève is the Geneva urban area where more than 700,000 people live. The Salève consists of the P…
wikipedia/Salève
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Bossons Glacier
Bossons Glacier
Les Bossons
The Bossons Glacier is one of the larger glaciers of the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps, found in the Chamonix valley of Haute-Savoie département, south-eastern France. It is fed from icefields lying on the northern side of Mont Blanc, and descends down close to the Aiguille du Midi and ends on the southern side of the Arve valley, close to the town of Chamonix. It has the largest altitudinal drop of all the alpine glaciers in Europe, and formerly extended much further down the valley than it do…
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Notre-Dame de l'Assomption.
Notre-Dame de l'Assompti…
Lake Geneva (French: le Léman French: [lə lemɑ̃], French: [lak lemɑ̃], rarely French: [lak də ʒ(ə)nɛv]; Italian: Lago Lemano; German: Genfersee German: [ˈɡɛnfərˌzeː]; Romansh: Lai da Genevra) is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône. Sixty per cent () of the lake belongs to Switzerland (the cantons of Vaud, Geneva and Valais) and forty per cent () to France (t…
wikipedia/Lake_Geneva
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Argentière Glacier, French Alps
Argentière Glacier, Fren…
The Aiguille Verte (French: [eɡɥij vɛʁt]; ), which is French for "Green Needle", is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. It was first climbed on 29 June 1865 by Edward Whymper, Christian Almer and Franz Biner, a fortnight before the fateful first ascent of the Matterhorn. Whymper was unable to climb with his usual guide, Michel Croz, who had to wait for a client in Chamonix. As a result, Whymper hired the services of Christian Almer, who had been with Alfred Wills on the Wett…
wikipedia/Aiguille_Verte
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Col de la Colombière
Col de la Colombière
Venay
Col de la Colombière (elevation 1613 m) is a mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Haute-Savoie in France. It connects Cluses in the Arve valley with Le Grand-Bornand in the valley. The road then leads further to Annecy or over Col des Aravis to the Arly valley and is situated between the Massif des Bornes to the north-west and the Chaîne des Aravis to the south-east. The pass is not an important traffic route because there are better roads that parallel it, particularly the A40 autor…
wikipedia/Col_de_la_Colombière
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Aiguille du Dru
Aiguille du Dru
Le Montenvers
The Aiguille du Dru (also the Dru or the Drus; French, Les Drus) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. It is situated to the east of the village of Les Praz in the Chamonix valley. "Aiguille" means "needle" in French. The mountain's highest summit is: • Grande Aiguille du Dru (or the Grand Dru) 3,754 m Another, slightly lower sub-summit is: • Petite Aiguille du Dru (or the Petit Dru) 3,733 m. The two summits are on the west ridge of the Aiguille Verte (4,122 m) and are conne…
wikipedia/Aiguille_du_Dru
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Aiguilles Rouges
Aiguilles Rouges
Les Tines
The Aiguilles Rouges ("Red Needles") are a crystalline mountainous massif of the French Prealps, opposite the Mont Blanc Massif. The colour of the iron rich gneiss (metamorphique) mountains gives the range its name. The highest summit is the Aiguille du Belvédère at . At the southern end of the range, Le Brévent at is accessible by a cable car in the Planpraz and the Brévent sections. Morphology Unlike the massif of the Mont Blanc, the Aiguilles Rouges have no significant glaciers. The alpine …
wikipedia/Aiguilles_Rouges
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Aiguille de Bionnassay
Aiguille de Bionnassay
Bionnassay
The Aiguille de Bionnassay (elevation ) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps in France and Italy. It has been described as "one of the most attractive satellite peaks of Mont Blanc", and is located on its western side. The mountain's south and east ridges form the frontier between the two countries, and its summit is a knife-edge crest of snow and ice. Reaching it via any route provides a "splendid and serious snow and ice climb". Glaciers Three significant glaciers originate on t…
wikipedia/Aiguille_de_Bionnassay
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Portes du Soleil
Portes du Soleil
Avoriaz
Les Portes du Soleil (literally "The Doors of the Sun") is a major skisports destination in the Alps, encompassing thirteen resorts between Mont Blanc in France and Lake Geneva in Switzerland. With more than 650 km of marked pistes (claimed by the lift companies; an independent expert measured about 426 km ) and about 200 lifts in total, spread over 14 valleys and about , Portes du Soleil ranks among the two largest ski areas in the world (the other being Les Trois Vallées). Almost all of the pi…
wikipedia/Portes_du_Soleil
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Panorama Col des Aravis, France
Panorama Col des Aravis,…
The Col de la Croix Fry () is a mountain pass located in the Chaîne des Aravis, between Manigod and La Clusaz in the Haute-Savoie department of France. The road over the col is used occasionally by the Tour de France cycle race with the tour crossing the pass on Stage 19 of the 2013 Tour. At the summit is the village of La Croix Fry. Details of the climb From the west, the climb starts at Thônes, from where the summit is . Over this distance, the road climbs at an average gradient of 6.6%. En …
wikipedia/Col_de_la_Croix_Fry
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Dôme du Goûter
Dôme du Goûter
Les Houches
The Dôme du Goûter (4,304 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif. It is a shoulder of Mont Blanc, whose summit lies two kilometres to the south-east. The Dôme is traversed on ascents of Mont Blanc via the Bosses route. The summit of the Dôme is marked as lying entirely within France on the French Institut Géographique National (IGN) map https://web.archive.org/web/20081204181026/http://lynx.uio.no/jon/gif/misc/mbmap2.jpg, although on Italian Istituto Geografico Militare (IGM) map https://web.…
wikipedia/Dôme_du_Goûter
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Château d'Annecy
Château d'Annecy
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. History The castle was built between the 12th and 16th centuries. It served as the residence of the Counts of Geneva and the Dukes of Genevois-Nemours. Several times the victim of fires, the …
wikipedia/Château_d'Annecy
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Mont Maudit
Mont Maudit
Les Houches
Mont Maudit (4,465 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in France and Italy. The French name literally means "Cursed Mountain". Until the end of the 18th century, Mont Blanc and its satellite peaks were collectively known in French as the Montagne Maudite. Climbing history The first ascent of Mont Maudit was by a British party comprising Henry Seymour King and the lawyer/diplomat William Edward Davidson with guides Johann Jaun and Johann von Bergen on 12 September 1878. The route they took …
wikipedia/Mont_Maudit
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Rochers de Lechaux - Lac de Lessy
Rochers de Lechaux - La…
Haute-Savoie (French: [ot savwa]; Arpitan: Savouè d'Amont or Hiôta-Savouè; 'Upper Savoy') is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy. Its prefecture is Annecy. To the north is Lake Geneva; to the south and southeast are Mont Blanc and the Aravis mountain range. It holds its name from the Savoy historical region, as does the department of Savoie, located south of Haute-Savoie. In 2019, it had a population of 826,094. Its subpref…
wikipedia/Haute-Savoie
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Roc de Chère National Nature Reserve
Roc de Chère National Na…
Menthon-Saint-Bernard
The Roc de Chère National Nature Reserve is a major ecologic site in southeastern France. A protected nature reserve since 1977, it covers a small area of . It is located near the commune of Talloires, on the eastern bank of Lake Annecy at an elevation of . The Roc de Chère is a small mountain, culminating at a modest , which was formed by a quaternary glacier from the south. Etymology The word Chère comes from the pre-Indo-European root *car-, which was used to designate a stony material, a roc…
wikipedia/Roc_de_Chère_National_Nature_Reserve
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Aulps Abbey
Aulps Abbey
Saint-Jean-d'Aulps
Aulps Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery located at an altitude of 810 metres in the village of Saint-Jean-d'Aulps in the Aulps Valley, Haute-Savoie, French Alps. It is 7 km from Morzine, 25 km from Thonon and 60 km from Geneva. Aulps Abbey was a major Cistercian site in the Haute Savoie region for almost seven hundred years, from its foundation in the 1090s to its suppression in 1793. The church was partially destroyed in 1823, for its stones, but the superb 13th century façade remains stan…
wikipedia/Aulps_Abbey
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Annecy – Haute-Savoie – Mont Blanc Airport
Annecy – Haute-Savoie – …
Meythet
Annecy – Haute-Savoie – Mont Blanc Airport or Aéroport Annecy Haute-Savoie Mont Blanc , also known as Aéroport d'Annecy - Meythet, is an airport located 3.5 km northwest of Annecy, between Meythet and Metz-Tessy, all communes of the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes région of France. Airlines and destinations No destinations served at present. Statistics External links • ''Aéroport Annecy Haute-Savoie Mont Blanc'' (official site) • ''Aéroport d'Annecy - Haute Savoie'' (Union des Aérop…
wikipedia/Annecy_–_Haute-Savoie_–_Mont_Blanc_Airport
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Les Droites
Les Droites
Le Montenvers
Les Droites () is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps and is the lowest of the 4000-metre peaks in the Alps. The mountain has two summits: • West summit (3,984 m), first ascent by W. A. B. Coolidge, Christian Almer and Ulrich Almer on 16 July 1876 • East summit (4,000 m), first ascent by Thomas Middlemore and John Oakley Maund with Henri Cordier, Johann Jaun and Andreas Maurer on 7 August 1876 The north face of the mountain rises some 1,600 m from the Argentière basin at an av…
wikipedia/Les_Droites
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Rochers de Lechaux - Lac de Lessy
Rochers de Lechaux - La…
The Bornes Massif (French: Massif des Bornes) is a mountainous massif in the north French Prealps in the département of Haute-Savoie. It has 20 peaks higher than 2000 m and is a popular destination for winter sports. The Massif is the source of the celebrated cheese Reblochon. Geography Location The massif is bounded on the east by the Thônes depression and the Aravis Range, where the highest peaks of the Northern Prealps are to be found, to the south-west by Lake Annecy and the Bauges Massif, a…
wikipedia/Bornes_Massif
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Dranse
Dranse
Thonon-les-Bains
The Dranse (French: la Dranse) is a French river in the department of Haute-Savoie, that empties into Lake Geneva between Thonon-les-Bains and Évian-les-Bains. The name "Dranse" comes from the former Drantia, based on the hydronym dur-, dora and the suffix -antia. Geography The Dranse is formed from the combination of three mountain rivers originating from the peaks of the upper Chablais Alps, which converge upstream from the delta: • To the east, the Dranse d'Abondance irrigates the Val d'Abon…
wikipedia/Dranse_(Haute-Savoie)
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Tranvia del Mont Blanc
Tranvia del Mont Blanc
The church of Notre-Dame de Toute Grâce du Plateau d'Assy (Our Lady Full of Grace of the Plateau d'Assy) is a Roman Catholic church in France, constructed on the plateau d'Assy between 1937 and 1946. It faces Mont Blanc, and is within the territory of the commune of Passy, in the Haute-Savoie department. Constructed at the urging of canon Jean Devémy and designed by the Savoyard architect Maurice Novarina, the church is celebrated for its decoration, contributed by some of the best-known artis…
wikipedia/Église_Notre-Dame_de_Toute_Grâce_du_Plateau_d'Assy
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Mont-Blanc dans sa splendeur
Mont-Blanc dans sa splen…
Grande Rocheuse (4,102 m) is a summit on the east ridge of Aiguille Verte in the Mont Blanc massif in Haute-Savoie, France
wikipedia/Grande_Rocheuse
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