Châtel

See also: Chatel

Châtel is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Savoie and the area the Rhone-Alps. Its inhabitants is called Châtellans.

family Station of Winter sports and summer, with some steps of Avoriaz, ideal for the beginners, it is one of the 14 stations of the wide field of the Portes of the Sun.

Geography

Located in the French Chablais, it is, to 1200 m of altitude, the last village of the Val of Abundance. Châtel is sprinkled by the Dranse d' Abondance, which takes its source close to the hamlet of Plaine Dranse and joined the Dranse de Morzine before being thrown in the Lac Léman between Thonon-the-Baths and Évian-the-Baths.

History

Etymology

Heraldic

Blasonnement: Of azure to the gold castle on a mount of three coupeaux of sinople, surmounted of a horn of plenty also of gold

History of the village

Administration

Administration on the spot

List former mayors

Demography

Economy

Tourism

Estival activities

Winter activities

Châtel is a Winter sports resort located in the middle of the international field free-Switzerland of the Portes of the Sun.

• See also Super-Châtel.

Inheritance of the commune

Environmental inheritance

• Flat Dranse
• Collar of Bassachaux

Architectural heritage

• neo-gothic Saint Laurent Church of style (1904)
• Presbytery of 1784, restored at the 20th century

Personalities related to the commune

Twinnings

Châtel is twinned with:

See too

Related articles

• Common of Haute-Savoie
• Tourism in Haute-Savoie & Tourism in Country of Savoy
• Valley of Abundance and Dranse d' Abondance
• Sport in Country of Savoy

External bonds

• Tourist bureau of Châtel
• Châtel on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Châtel on the site of INSEE
• Châtel on the site of Quid
• Localization of Châtel on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane on Châtel on Mapquest

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