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Le château en bref
Despite its name, the Château de la Crête, in Thyez in the Arve valley, was never a fortress. Its history begins in 1222, when Rodolphe de Lucinges, seneschal of the Faucigny, gave his vineyard of La Crête to the monks of the Carthusian monastery of Le Reposoir; the Bishop of Geneva confirmed this donation the following year. As the monastery was some distance away, the Carthusians had a cellar built on site in the 13th century to store their harvests. The building, also known as the Château de la Place, was subsequently adapted to other uses over the centuries: it housed a small school and, in the 20th century, became the town hall of Thyez. Its architecture, of agricultural and monastic origin, has retained a medieval appearance that earned it the name château. It remains today the seat of municipal life and the main historical landmark in the town centre.