Sentier: "Errance à travers l'histoire"

With a 1.2 km lake frontage and landscapes between giant sequoia and centuries-old chestnut trees, the 24-hectare site is an ideal place for family relaxation and walking.This 24-hectare estate, one of the few accessible public spaces on the shores of Lake Geneva in France, is home to the Manoir de Rovorée and La Châtaignière, owned by the Haute-Savoie department and the Conservatoire du Littoral. The Domaine is one of the largest natural sites accessible to the public on the French side of Lake Geneva. It is not a developed urban park, but a sensitive natural area, home to an ancient forest with centuries-old chestnut trees, lakeshores with tufa caves and medieval remains, forest and shore birds and a splendid panorama of Lake Geneva. The absence of contemporary development preserves the magical charm of these landscapes, shaped over the centuries by human practices, and offers nature lovers and quiet enthusiasts a unique site, notably for its magnificent chestnut trees, rooted for two centuries in this unspoilt setting. The estate boasts a wide variety of landscapes: tufa resurgences, meadows, hedges, wooded areas, lake shores... These contrasts explain the richness of the local biodiversity. There are no fewer than 350 species of flora, 87 species of birds, 29 species of butterflies and 13 species of bats! The site is designed to welcome all kinds of visitors: interpretation panels along the trails, parking, PRM accessibility, teaching aids for teachers, an off-site room planned... Some of the trails are accessible to people with reduced mobility. Every year, from April to October, the Département and its partners offer free nature discovery activities, enabling you to discover the richness of the site in a playful, artistic and unusual way, as well as an exhibition linking nature and culture. Sensitive natural area owned by the Haute-Savoie département.

Pleasure boaters and professional fishermen share the wharves below the church, where the fishermen's port is like a timeless bubble, a calm and peaceful spot frequented by local wildlife.To facilitate the work of fishermen and boatmen, as well as to protect the banks, protective dikes and harbours were built: the first was the Fishermen's Harbour below the church, built in the early 19th century by the fishermen themselves. It was destroyed by the lake and rebuilt in the 1860s. At that time, steamboats with paddlewheels were already plying the Lake Geneva, but they couldn't dock at the small port's jetty, so passengers had to embark and disembark via a wooden pontoon that extended the short stone jetty still visible today at the foot of the château.