HOME | DD

Description
Le château Allinges-Neuf is an old fortified castle, from the 10th – 11th centuries.
Le château d'Allinges-Vieux is an old fort dating from the10th century.

The ruins of Château-Neuf and Château-Vieux stand face to face at the top of Allinges hill. The Romanesque chapel of Château Neuf 11th century which houses a remarkable fresco in the cul-de-four apse is classified as a Historic Monument.
This place in the Allinges castles served as the residence of Saint François de Sales (1567-1622) during his mission of evangelization of this province, between 1594 and 1598, after it was taken back from the Genevan and Bernese Protestants by the Duke of Savoy. . It remains a place of pilgrimage.

The ruins share the eminence of a hill, called the “butte des châteaux”, with those of Allinges-Vieux, from which they are only 150 m apart with centuries of feuding between them.

Description
Le château Allinges-Neuf is an old fortified castle, from the 10th – 11th centuries.
Le château d'Allinges-Vieux is an old fort dating from the10th century.

The ruins of Château-Neuf and Château-Vieux stand face to face at the top of Allinges hill. The Romanesque chapel of Château Neuf 11th century which houses a remarkable fresco in the cul-de-four apse is classified as a Historic Monument.
This place in the Allinges castles served as the residence of Saint François de Sales (1567-1622) during his mission of evangelization of this province, between 1594 and 1598, after it was taken back from the Genevan and Bernese Protestants by the Duke of Savoy. . It remains a place of pilgrimage.

The ruins share the eminence of a hill, called the “butte des châteaux”, with those of Allinges-Vieux, from which they are only 150 m apart with centuries of feuding between them.