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Beauvivier Tower

  • Lake Annecy Doussard Bout du lac Nature Reserve
  • Bout du lac Nature Reserve
  • Bout du lac d'Annecy Nature Reserve protected environment
Lake Annecy Doussard Bout du lac Nature ReserveBout du lac Nature ReserveBout du lac d'Annecy Nature Reserve protected environment
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  • Period :
    • 12th C
    • 13th C
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Beauvivier Tower
Route de la vieille église
74210
Doussard
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  • Type of culturel patrimony :
    • Historic site and monument
  • Historical patrimony :
    • Historic patrimony
    • Tower
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Roofless ruin from the Middle Ages, this building towers over lake Annecy (with recent stairs). It probably was the centre of a fortified lordly residence with an economic role rather than a watchtower as tradition would have it.
The Beauvivier site is mentioned in the 9th century in a chart through which King Lothaire II (835-869) gives the Dulzianum villa (Doussard) - a property located in the marshes - to his wife Theuteberge. Then around 1305 Beauvivier appears in a text mentioning a fortified manor house with a chapel belonging to the Duingt family, provided with an important judicial role and surrounded with ditches, agricultural lands, barns, mills, threshers, fisheries and a harbour.
The silting of the site probably led to its desertion.
The Beauvivier tower is a 7.30m x 6.90m quadrilateral building with an indoors space of 3.20m x 3.25m. Built with roughly squared off limestone rubbles, you can enter it through a recent metal staircase. The ground floor is windowless and the access is through a centring arch door on the first floor.
The architectural characteristics of the tower - a roughly leveled brickwork, a quadrangular plane, a windowless ground floor, an access through a centring arch door on the first floor, very thick walls and the absence of defensive elements - make it a typical tower from the late 12th or early 13th century. It can be compared to the local towers of Ugine (the Castle), Albertville (Conflans), Montailleur (the Castle), Tournon (Tourmotte) etc.
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All year long 2022

Every day

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  • Individual tour services :
    • Unguided individual tours available permanently
  • Group tour services :
    • Unguided group tours available permanently
  • Visites :
    • Average individual visit length (minutes) 90
Services & equipment
  • Services :
    • 20 people max per group
  • Leisure facilities :
    • Orientation board
  • Information panel language(s) :
    • French
Tips
  • Indication prix :
    • Gratuit
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Tour de Beauvivier
Route de la vieille église
74210
Doussard
GPS coordinates
Latitude : 45.795533
Longitude : 6.225069
Regular bus line LIHSA 51 Annecy-Albertville: Le Pôlé/Bout du lac bus stop.
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  • Environnements :
    • Lakeside or by stretch of water
    • In the country