Bonneville Castle

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Bonneville Castle, in Haute-Savoie, began in 1262 as a first wooden fort built by Peter of Savoy, which was replaced around 1290 by the present fortress of Beatrice of Faucigny, known as the Grande Dauphine. Serving as the Savoyard administrative centre from 1355, it retains a 13th-century circular keep, two major towers (the Black and the White) linked by a curtain wall with a drawbridge, and a Gothic chapel dedicated to Saint Catherine. Converted into a prison in the 18th century, it was acquired by the commune of Bonneville in 1934 after the prison's closure, was listed as a monument historique in 1987, and is open to the public in summer (towers, curtain wall, central courtyard), with archaeological excavations carried out in 2019.