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Le château en bref
Hermance Castle, in the canton of Geneva, is chiefly remembered for its circular keep, the emblem of the village. The castle and the fortified town are first mentioned in 1247; they were probably founded in the first half of the 13th century by the lords of Faucigny. Hermance passed to the House of Savoy in the middle of the century, was contested with the counts of Geneva, taken in 1325–1326, retaken in 1332, conquered by Bern in 1536, returned to Savoy in 1567; its fortifications were dismantled in 1589, and the Treaty of Saint-Julien (1603) forbade them from being rebuilt. The keep retains a spiral staircase within the thickness of the wall. Hermance was attached to Geneva in 1816.