1 NOTRE-DAME 2 RUE 3 LA PLACE 4 CASTLE 5 THE HOTEL 6 THE HOTEL ROYAL 7 LA GRANGE 8 CACHAT SPRING DE L’ASSOMPTION DE L’EGLISE DU MARCHÉ OF THE DUKES SPLENDIDE AU LAC CHURCH OF SAVOY This luxurious hotel with 250 rooms This mineral water spring is why Evian is known all over the world. It is named after Guided The atmosphere of the Franc Quarter ‒ was built between 1906 and 1909 for Gabriel Cachat, the owner of the garden where it ran at the end of the 18th century. the oldest neighbourhood in the city, a subsidiary of the mineral water The therapeutic qualities of the water were discovered by Count Jean-Charles de The Evian Castle was one of the Savoy protected behind the rampart walls is company, based on Parisian architect Lazier, an aristocrat from Auvergne. Fleeing the French Revolution, he stayed in Evian tours of court’s favourite residences. In the palpable through the narrow, winding Albert Hébrard’s plans. Located well from June 1790 to September 1792 at Gabriel Cachat’s home and drank the water middle of the 13th century, Peter II, streets surrounding the Notre-Dame away from the resort and overlooking every day. His kidney stones, having made him suffer for years, disappeared rapidly. Count of Savoy, created the layout the town de l’Assomption Church. Economic the Léman, it provides its guests with Analysed in 1807, the water is recommended for kidney and bladder ailments and for the square building. The 45-metre activity flourished here thanks to the the proximity of a golf course, tennis its popularity as simple drinking water increased in 1860. The Cachat Spring belongs (only in French) sides are guarded at each angle by franchises granted to the city by the courts and clay pigeon shooting ranges. to the Evian mineral water company. a round tower. Access to the building Dukes of Savoy. The oldest charter A royal suite was designed in the is defended by a drawbridge over the found was granted by Duke Peter II in original plan as the King of England, Bennevy Stream. To the north, facing May 1265. The sovereigns’ mint was Edward VII, was supposed to visit but the lake, is the Count’s corps de logis. located in the nearby Rue de la Monnaie. passed away in May 1910 without ever The 2-metre thick and 10-metre high This house still has the windows with having visited Evian. The main building Historic Tour: Culinary Tour: walls are extended by the city ramparts ‒ ogee-stone frames. An ogee-style arch has five floors and the wings have three. with towers and four doors regularly Tuesdays at 2.30 pm Thursdays at 10 am topped with an escutcheon faces the The consoles and wood decorations on dispersed throughout ‒ reaching the (duration: 1.5 hours) (duration: 2 hours) entrance to a courtyard. the façade recall the rural surroundings. shores of the lake. Left by the Dukes The original roofs were modified after a From April to September July and August The church, built during the second of Savoy at the end of the 14th century, fire during the night of 12 to 13 August half of the 13th century, is representative the castle was occupied by the Valaisians 1958 damaged the two upper floors. of the Gothic style found in the Savoie and then over taken by the French king’s The Hotel Splendide was destroyed in Family Tour: ‘Belle Epoque’ Tour: region. Reworked towards the end of The Place du Marché, or market place, troops and was dismantled in 1591. 1983 and was part of Evian’s thermal This auditorium was inaugurated in May Wednesdays at 10.30 am Wednesdays at 4 pm the 14th and beginning of the 15th was the economic hub for the medieval Three remaining rampart towers can still glory days. Created in 1860 by the 1993 to hold the Rencontres Musicales (duration: 1.5 hours) (duration: 2 hours) centuries, and renovated on several city. It was located at the foot of the be seen above the Rue Nationale. mineral water company under the d’Evian. The Grange au lac integrates occasions, two and a half rows on the castle near the banks of the river where seamlessly into its environment thanks Every Wednesday July and name Grand Hôtel des Bains, it was western end were added before 1930. small boats would come to land on the extended and a floor was added during to the forest of larch trees from the th during the Spring holidays, August The Romanesque-Byzantine style of shingle beach. By the 13 century, a hall the 1897/98 winter season. Work was Hotel Ermitage domain that overlooks July and August the façade dates back to this time. covered with wooden slats (called conducted by Ernest Brunnarius and the Hotel Royal. Midway between the Every Wednesday during The square steeple is topped with an shingles) made the edifice vulnerable finished within seven months. This tour- traditional barn and a Russian datcha Visits arrow and four turrets that were taken to fire and gusts of wind. It would have house, it is entirely built with wood ‒ the October half-term holiday de-force became its final silhouette: subject to down in 1794 and replaced by a lantern. to be rebuilt several times. Nearby, a long main building with a terrace and red cedar and Jura pine that time has sufficient participants. Inside, we can see ribbed vaulted a large hallowed-out rock with several three domed pavilions in the front. The slowly given a patina to. It can hold 1,200 ceilings, worked molasse capitals and cavities was used to measure merchan- spectators and 200 musicians and © Evian Tourisme & Congrès / P. Leroy (Sémaphore) - B. Delerue - P. Thiriet - Ville d’Evian Evian Resort - B. Delerue P. (Sémaphore) Leroy / P. & Congrès © Evian Tourisme Imperative registration hotel then became the Hotel Splendide, Storytelling of the town: corbels with cherubs holding the Savoy dise. The duke’s agents would wander enjoys exceptionally good acoustic the day before the visit a palace with 230 rooms. Some of the Wednesdays at 8.30 pm arms. In a side chapel, the relief painting between the banks to deduct a tax most renowned guests were Sarah qualities. The design of this hall is (duration: 2 hours) at Tourist Office. of the Madonna and Child dates back to applied to certain products like meat Bernhardt and Gustave Eiffel before exceptional. It was born of the friendship 1493 and belonged to Louise of Savoy. and wheat. The centre of the place was between the excellent cellist Mstislav July and August Tel. +33 4 50 75 04 26 1898, and Marcel Proust, who spent The funerary tile for Vespasien Gribaldi, decorated with a wooden basin fountain several days there. There is an impres- Rostropovitch and Antoine Riboud, [email protected] archbishop of Vienna, is placed in front and the nearby pillory stood where Danone CEO, and was entrusted to - Cartographie C. Houlès sive cedar tree in the old park. It was www.evian-tourisme.com of the main altar. The Neo-Gothic stalls miscreants were exposed for public probably planted during the first years architect Patrick Bouchain, who was made of walnut wood date back to the humiliation. and will soon be two centuries old. assisted by BAOS Services. first half of the 19th century. Création 9 BUVETTE 10 OLD HOSPICE- 11 GRIBALDI HOME 12 THE FUNICULAR 13 CHÂTEAU DE 14 NOVARINA- 15 HÔTEL 15 VILLA 16 BARQUE BIS CACHAT HOSPITAL FONBONNE PROUVÉ DU PARC DU CHÂTELET LA SAVOIE This electrical traction funicular railway without cogs was built in several sections BUVETTE Miss Pernette Grenat, a bourgeois between 1907 and 1913 by the Swiss engineer Koller for a subsidiary of the mineral A fortified manor house stood on This building is currently a private The Savoie, whose home port is Evian, born in Evian, gave her name to this water company. It carried tourist patrons leaving from the port, thermal resort and this location during the 14th century. residence and is connected to several is the replica of a 35-m barque with establishment when, in 1355, she casino to the main hotels (Splendide, Royal, Ermitage) and passed in front of the It defended the new La Touvière historical milestones of the 20th lateen sails. It was built in 1896 near bequeathed it ‒ and the rest of her Cachat snack bar. We call it Evian’s mini metro because it serves six stations and Quarter located outside the city walls. century. Between 1907 and 1926, Geneva for a family of boatmen from possessions ‒ to the hospice-hospital bevelled tiles are on the station walls. Two cars with five compartments each run It was bought in 1559 by Thomas a company from Lyon created a vast Meillerie, the Pérays. These wide-sided founded just a few years before. along the 750-metre line, including 140 metres underground. Closed in 1969, Jacquerod who bequeathed it to thermal and hotel complex using the and low-draft boats were used up to Encouraged by the Dukes of Savoy and the funicular railway was started up again during summer 2002 after six years of his noble descendants, the Loys of Châtelet mineral waters. During WWI, WWII to transport various materials, the papacy, and thanks to the people renovation work. It belongs to the city of Evian and is listed as a historical monument. Bonnevaux. The Fonbonne name it was converted into an American Red in particular stones from the Meille- of Evian’s bequests, the establishment appeared at a later time.