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Château d'Annecy today

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Château d'Annecy

The Château d'Annecy is a restored medieval castle overlooking the old town of Annecy in Haute-Savoie, France. Constructed between the 12th and 16th centuries, the complex groups several square towers and lodging blocks around a courtyard and terrace that look out over the town and surrounding Alps. The castle today has been restored and adapted as a museum.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

First raised

1200

Its prime

1550

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1550

The shape it held in its prime.

The Château d'Annecy is a compact cluster of pale limestone buildings with steep red clay-tiled roofs and multiple square towers: a tall, thick-walled tower with pronounced corbelled eaves beneath its roof and smaller lodging towers with narrow slit windows. Façades show mullioned rectangular windows and patchy ashlar repairs. A high vine-clad curtain wall runs from the main block into a broad cobbled forecourt. The site sits above the town with alpine peaks visible beyond; at its prime the complex is fully roofed and intact.

Step inside

9 places to explore in 1550.

The record describes 9 distinct spots at Château d'Annecy — including 3 interiors: queen's tower chamber, logis vieux principal chamber, logis nemours residential chamber. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Forecourt approachLower courtyard at the base of the Tour de la ReineTour de la Reine exteriorQueen's Tower chamberLogis Vieux principal chamberLogis Nemours residential chamberCastle terrace viewpoint over the townCurtain wall walkRoofline and skyline seen from the courtyard

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See Château d'Annecy with the fires lit.

The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1550 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.

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