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Bonjour " visiteur " Nous sommes le Samedi 19 Mai 2012 et il est 11 heures 09 minutes

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Yvoire

In 40 mn of Bernex (has not especially not miss, a pleasure for eyes)

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It is necessary to stop to Yvoire.
" It is a strengthened village. Everything at the end of headland and dominating the Lake Geneva, it is strictly tightened still in its disappeared surrounding wall; I understand that it did not dare to cross the line, at the moment fictitious and it remained lain in ambush behind its two towers which forbid its two entries."
" We sink under their vault with diagonal rib and, in front of one, it is the stiff slope of the rocky lanes, it is a dégringolement collected by small houses with roofs in the big yellow tiles, it is finally, in the bottom the castle ordering the port: a big stony cube, with a terrace, and, on its warlike walls, lengthens and floats to the wind the peaceful Virginia creeper. "
"Text of Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, extracted of "Un coin de Savoie " (1909-1942) "
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  • Web site tourist office of Yvoire
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    Yvoire

    yvoire chateau

    is a strengthened medieval village situated on the banks of the Lake Geneva.
    The village is classified among the most beautiful villages of France.
    It is one of the tourist destinations the most appreciated by French Chablais.
    The village is rewarded every year since 1959 within the framework of the Competition of cities and flowery villages where it is at present classified in the first rank ( four flowers) and classified in national Grand Prix of the flowers arangement since 1995 and having received the silver medal in the edition of 2002 from the European competition of the flowers arangement.

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