Château de Collonges

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Le château en bref

Château de Collonges, in Ruffieux (Savoie), largely dates from the nineteenth century, but its foundations, which are older, probably go back to the thirteenth century. Its name comes from the Collonges family, innkeepers at the site in the fourteenth century, who left the Chautagne region in the fifteenth century. It is adorned with a whimsical round tower topped with a pepperpot roof. Between 1972 and 1994, it operated as a hotel-restaurant classified as a Relais du Silence; in the 1970s, its grounds were parcelled out for development, the only surviving part being the restored former cellar building.