Yvoire

Geography

History

The oldest constructions go back to the 12th century (creation of the seigniory of Yvoire), but Yvoire was already a borough before, the fortifications as for them date from the 14th century, they were set up on the order of Amédée V large the, count de Savoie. The village celebrated its 700 years in 2006.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Château of Yvoire builds at the 14th century, was quickly destroyed by the Berneses at the time of one of the many conflicts which opposed them to the Counts de Savoie, It will be raised in the current of the 16th century, the keep as for him will await the beginning of the 20th century to find the roof that one currently knows to him.
the church is capped with a remarkable bell-tower with bulb.
There existed until 2005 a Vivarium created in an old residence of the old borough joined with the ramparts of the 14th century. It made it possible to discover more than seventy alive species of Reptile S of the five continents: Snake S, Crocodile S, Lizard S and tortoise S. It was recognized, in the world of the Herpétologie for the quality of work which was undertaken there, like the reproduction of species in captivity. But it made it possible above all to sensitize the general public on the ecological and environmental role major of the reptiles.
the Labyrinth - Garden of the Five Directions ©: in the middle of the village, the old kitchen garden of the castle, restored according to the art of the closed gardens of the castle of the Middle Ages, became a place of poetry and dreams, a vegetable Labyrinthe evolving/moving with the wire of the hours and the seasons, a universe of color, perfumes, sounds and textures… This garden is classified remarkable Jardin France.

Tourism

With the unloading dock of the port you will be able to embark for cruisings, on board the steamers provided with paddle wheels, general Company of navigation, they serve in tourist season all the ports of the Lac Léman. Who more has been, for this year you can discover Léman on board solar boat L'" Aquarel", which carries out walks with accompanying notes with broad of Yvoire, one 30 minutes duration and also serves the field of Chataignière, a domain public of 24 hectares in which you can trott or visit the central masonry, which, in summer period, proposes each year of the different exposures.

Economy

Events

Philately: La Poste Frenchwoman emitted on March 27th, 2006 a stamp of 0,53 euro devoted to Yvoire.

Personalities related to the commune

Alfred de Bougy (1814 - 1874) visited the village. Here how it describes it: a bunch of ugly shacks raised on an inclined ground, tormented, rocky, which goes down to the lake; streets - if one can give this name to nauseous passages, about impracticable -, are used as drains with the water of the manures; apparent of these hovels resemble cabins with pigs, smoke in fate by low doors; animals and people live shovel-mixes, eat and drink with the same pot, grouillent in narrow and the stinking reduced ones; there, any thing pushing back, deformed, and can misery. Entering the inn of which a branch of fir tree hung as a sign, according to the country use with the roof whose edge was very broad , it pays As soon as I put feet in this narrow place, little aired, terribly swine, I felt fourmillères chips to make the rise of my legs, and clouds of flies came bourdonner to my ears. (...) I sitted at the end of a table occupied by some drinkers who resembled rather animals that with human beings, of which the language was a kind of inintelligible growl, the patois an idiom of cruelest.

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