En un regard
Le château en bref
The Château de La Roche-sur-Foron, also known as the Château du Rocher, overlooks the medieval town of La Roche-sur-Foron from a rocky spur. Only the keep survives today, 11 m high. It is one of the first circular towers built in Savoy and stands astride a fissure in an erratic boulder 17 m high, whose interior is divided into four natural caves stacked one above another. The seat of the de La Roche family and later the residence of the counts of Geneva until the early 12th century, the castle passed to the House of Savoy in 1411. It was destroyed during the war of 1589–1593, and was notably ravaged by the Genevans on 29 March 1590. In the late 19th century, Capuchin friars dug a tunnel through the rock.