Clets Castles

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The Clets castles, also known as Clées or Clefs, were medieval feudal fortifications, now vanished, located in the commune of Les Clefs in Haute-Savoie. Two of them were the centre of the lordship of the Val des Clets. The article thus covers three buildings: a seigneurial castle, owned by the Clets family; a comital castle, seat of the authority of the counts of Geneva over the Val des Clets and of a châtellenie; and a fortified manor house (maison-forte). In the nineteenth century, a country house known as the "château des Clefs" was built on the site of the seigneurial castle.