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Le château en bref
The fortified castle of Monthoux, in Vétraz-Monthoux, was built towards the end of the first half of the 13th century and became the seat of a châtellenie of Faucigny which, in the 14th century, covered the parishes of Haut-Monthoux and Bas-Monthoux, Annemasse, Ambilly, Sales and Vétraz. Taken by Count Aymon of Savoy after the Battle of Monthoux (July 1332), it remained Savoyard until 1497, when Amédée de Viry received its investiture; sold again in 1532 to the Guillet brothers, it was definitively destroyed on 30 March 1590 by the troops of Captain Lurbigny, a second Battle of Monthoux taking place nearby on 12 March 1591. The site today houses a municipal park with a Gothic chapel featuring pointed-arch stained-glass windows and a former church surrounded by old walls.