boat ride from Montreux to Château-de-Chillon
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2024
- The Chillon Castle (Château de Chillon) is located on the shore of Lake Geneva near Montreux, Switzerland. The castle consists of 25 independent buildings that were gradually connected and now form a single whole.
It was made popular by Lord Byron, who wrote the poem The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816) about François de Bonivard, a Genevois monk and politician who was imprisoned there from 1530 to 1536. The castle in one of the settings in Henry James's novella Daisy Miller (1878).
It now hosts a museum with some historical objects preserved and is open to public tours.
Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (French Lac Léman, le Léman, or Lac de Genève) is the second largest freshwater lake in Central Europe (after Lake Balaton). 60% of it comes under the jurisdiction of Switzerland (cantons of Vaud, Geneva, and Valais), and 40% under France (Haute-Savoie).
I used to live there, one of the most beautiful places on earth, and , good video, good quality,
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