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Talloires

Talloires is located south of Geneva, Switzerland, on Lake Annecy, near the border of Italy. The town is situated on the hills, along a bay on the east side of the lake.

The village is positioned on the east shore of Lake Annecy 5 km from the town. The high point of Mont du Veyrier (1293m) rises behind the village and since most of the village is built on its steep slopes to the lake many chalets have good panoramic views over the lake towards the town in the west. Other close by places are Menthon St Bernard 3 km, Talloires 6 km, La Clusaz 25km.

At least one travel book calls Talloires the "most romantic village" in France. The main business of the town is tourism, although it is still a complete community in its own right, with a central church, post office, bank, library, and a small general store.

Because of the remote location, accessible only by lengthy drives through very narrow, winding, mountain roads, most tourists in Talloires are from neighboring parts of France, Switzerland and Italy. The residents are less likely to speak English than might be expected in more metropolitan areas of France. Visitors may find that speaking French, at least in short phrases, will be necessary, even when ordering meals at the major restaurants in the town.

Talloires is situated in the eastern shore of the lake of Annecy, and benefits by the mountains.
Place of peace and gastronomy, Talloires favours relaxation and harmony.

This nice setting has propably been occupied from time immemorial.

In 866, Lothaire II has gived the territory of Talloires to his wife Thiberge. She has ordered to build a little and modest religious establishment (where there is the famous recent Abbaye): some places opened to wandering monks around a chapel. She has lived there until her death.

This setting becomes quickly a little monastery.

One hundred and fifty years later, the property of Talloires was given by the King and the Queen of Bourgogne, Rodolphe III and Ermengarde to the benedictine Abbaye of Savigny.

The first Prior Germain built, with the help of the villagers of Talloires, a nice and tall church because the Chapel of Thiberge was fallen in ruins.

Monks take place rapidly on this setting and during six centuries, the Prior grows rich thanks to the gifts by bishops, Counts de Geneve and the Dukes of Savoie.

In 1674, the pope Clément writes a brief which sets up the Prieuré badge in Abbaye Royale.
So, the decline started.

The monks, true feudal lords, carried out a dissolue’s life which caused a spirit of rebellion among the population.The Revolution reached Talloires only in July 1792. So the bell-tower of the church broke down (it is said that its bells still lie at the bottom of the lake and its ruins were definitively shaven in 1833) and old files nourished the flame of immense stake on the place of the chestnut trees...

Then Talloires was made forget during a few decades before the beauty of landscapes attracts the privileged people of a society of artists, writers and idlers. One, then two inns, accomodated the travellers come by boat from Annecy.

It is the beginnig of this century which saw to open out the world fame of Talloires as well by its admirable site as by its gastronomy and its reception of quality.