Château de Thorens, Thorens-Glières

Name: Château de Thorens
Address: Thorens-Glières, France

#1 among attractions in Thorens-Glières

Forts and castles, Top attraction, History museum, Museum

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The Château de Thorens is a castle in the commune of Thorens-Glières in the Haute-Savoie département of France. It is accessible from the north-east of Annecy by a road of about 20 km, going up to the plateau of Glières. It is often confused with the Château de Sales that was formerly its neighbour of a few hundred metres; Sales was destroyed on the order of king Louis XIII in 1630. Since the liberation of France at the end of World War II, the castle has sometimes incorrectly been called Château de Thorens-Glières, based on the current name of the commune, but it has always rightly been just de Thorens. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 45°59'37"N, 6°15'20"E

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Château de Thorens – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Évires, Mont Lachat, Annecy-le-Vieux, Refuge du Parmelan.

3.7 miNW
Locality
Évires
96 min walk • Évires is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Fillière.
6.5 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mont Lachat
165 min walk • The Mont Lachat is a summit in the French Alps, culminating at a height of 2,023 m in the Bornes Massif.
7.5 miSW
Area
Annecy-le-Vieux, Annecy
190 min walk • Annecy-le-Vieux is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Annecy.
3.2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Refuge du Parmelan
83 min walk • Refuge du Parmelan is a refuge in the Alps.
~760 ftNE
Forts and castles
Château de Sales, Thorens-Glières
4 min walk • The Château de Sales is a ruined castle in the commune of Thorens-Glières in the Haute-Savoie département of France. It is often confused with the nearby Château de Thorens.
5.7 miNE
Church
Collégiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, La Roche-sur-Foron
146 min walk • The Saint-Jean-Baptiste church of La Roche-sur-Foron is a church located in La Roche-sur-Foron, France. It is one of the ancient collegiate churches of the Diocese of Geneva.
5.8 miNE
Park, Forts and castles
Château de l'Echelle, La Roche-sur-Foron
149 min walk • The castle of La Roche, sometimes also called castle of the princes of Genevois, is an old fortified castle, of the XIIIth century, of which it remains only a tower known as of the counts of Geneva, which stood on the commune of La Roche-sur-Foron...
5.9 miNE
Wayside shrine
Croix de chemin, La Roche-sur-Foron
150 min walk • The La Roche-sur-Foron roadside cross is a roadside cross located in La Roche-sur-Foron, France.
6.7 miSW
Church
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Pitié, Annecy
172 min walk • The Notre-Dame-de-Pitié chapel, also known as the chapel of Provins, is a 19th century neo-Gothic chapel located in Annecy-le-Vieux, Haute-Savoie.
1.9 miSW
Locality
Aviernoz
49 min walk • Aviernoz is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Fillière.
6.3 miNE
Locality
Amancy
161 min walk • Amancy is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.