En un regard
Le château en bref
Set on a hill overlooking Lake Geneva, Prangins Castle is a large Baroque residence built in stages between 1732 and 1739 for the banker Louis Guiguer, who had acquired the estate in 1723 on the site of a medieval fortress burned by the Bernese after 1536. A northern wing housing administrative and agricultural functions, a southern wing and a central block containing the living quarters surround a series of terraces. The walled kitchen garden, set in a former moat, is presented as the largest historic kitchen garden in Switzerland. Voltaire was lodged there in 1754–1755, and Joseph Bonaparte purchased the castle in 1814. Acquired by the cantons of Vaud and Geneva in 1974, it has housed the Swiss National Museum – Prangins Castle since 1998.