Tour of the Lac de Flérier and villages

Au XVIIIème s. Joachim de la Grange, Comte de Taninges et de Flérier, fit construire un vaste château sur les hauteurs de Taninges.Un siècle plus tard, Laurent Marie Humbert, Jacquemard parti faire fortune à Paris, revient à ses origines et fait construire à l’image de sa fortune et de ses rêves, une bâtisse et ses dépendances regroupées sur 1400 m2 de terrain. On retrouve dans cette maison tout le confort possible de cette époque. Le «Clos du Chalet» est achevé en 1857 et dominera le chef lieu de Taninges jusqu’en 1995. De ce faste d’antant il ne reste que le souvenir.

Stroll in the old village of Taninges and discover a whole built heritage (XVIth - XIXth century) around the marketplace : fountain, old houses, arches, chapel and old bridge above Foron.Taninges, well situated between Annemasse & Sixt and Cluses & Thonon, knew for ages an intense business development. The village, formerly settled in the hamlet of Flérier, moved and got organized around the marketplace, it is unchanged since 1730. To discover : Saint Anne chapel, old houses, old bridge in hogback, and St Jean Baptiste church.

A monumental church by its size but also by its history !Built between 1824 and 1834 by the architect Prosper Dunant, the St Jean-Baptiste church is from the last architectural style of the States of Savoy : neo-classic Sardinian. Before, it was the biggest of the diocese of Annecy : 58 m length, 27 m wide and 18 m height. The facade of the building looks austere with few ornaments, but inside there is a profusion of decoration : paintings on the vault and pillars, stalls, carved wood and multicolored stained glasses. The visitor will visit a religious building and will discover how the jacquemarde population was decorating its churches there during the XIXth century.