Lac du Bourget
Lac du Bourget, also locally known as Lac d'Aix, is a lake at the southernmost end of the Jura Mountains in the department of Savoie, France. It is the deepest lake located entirely within France, and either the largest or second largest after Lac de Grand-Lieu depending on season.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in France
- Also known as: “Lac de Chambery”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hautecombe (Cistercian Abbey) and Église Saint-Antoine de La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat.
Hautecombe (Cistercian Abbey)
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Hautecombe Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery, later a Benedictine monastery, in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in Savoie, France. For centuries it was the burial place of the members of the House of Savoy. It is visited by 150,000 tourists annually. Hautecombe (Cistercian Abbey) is situated 3 km northwest of Lac du Bourget.
Église Saint-Antoine de La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat
Church
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Église Saint-Antoine de La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat is a church, which is situated 3 km south of Lac du Bourget.
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-l’Étoile de La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat
Church
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Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-l’Étoile de La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat is a church, which is situated 3 km south of Lac du Bourget.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brison-Saint-Innocent and Grésy-sur-Aix.
Brison-Saint-Innocent
Village
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Brison-Saint-Innocent is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is part of the urban area of Chambéry.
Grésy-sur-Aix
Village
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Grésy-sur-Aix is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is 4 kilometres away from Aix-les-Bains. It is part of the urban area of Chambéry. Grésy-sur-Aix is situated 5 km east of Lac du Bourget.
Jongieux
Village
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Jongieux is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Jongieux is situated 5 km west of Lac du Bourget.
Lac du Bourget
- Categories: meromictic lake, biosphere reserve, and body of water
- Location: Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Lac du Bourget” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة دو بورجيه”
- Arpitan: “Lèc du Borgèt”
- Basque: “Bourgeteko aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Возера Лак-дзю-Буржэ”
- Belarusian: “Лак-дзю-Буржэ”
- Bulgarian: “Бурже”
- Catalan: “Lac du Bourget”
- Cebuano: “Lac du Bourget”
- Chinese: “布尔歇湖”
- Chuvash: “Лак-дю-Бурже”
- Croatian: “Bourgetsko jezero”
- Czech: “Bourget”
- Danish: “Bourget-søen”
- Danish: “Bourgetsøen”
- Dutch: “Meer van Bourget”
- Dutch: “Meer van Le Bourget”
- Esperanto: “Lago Bourget”
- French: “lac du Bourget”
- French: “Lac du Bourget”
- Galician: “Lago Bourget”
- German: “Lac du Bourget”
- Italian: “lago del Bourget”
- Italian: “Lago del Bourget”
- Japanese: “ブルジェ湖”
- Korean: “부르제호”
- Latin: “Lacus Bourget”
- Latin: “Lacus de Burgello Camerinorum”
- Latvian: “Buržē ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Buržė ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Буржеско Езеро”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bourgetsjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bourgetsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Bourgetsjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac du Bourget”
- Persian: “دریاچه بورژه”
- Piemontese: “Lagh ëd Bourget”
- Polish: “Jezioro Bourget”
- Portuguese: “Lago do Bourget”
- Russian: “Бурже”
- Russian: “Лак-дю-Бурже”
- Slovak: “Lac du Bourget”
- Spanish: “Lago Bourget”
- Spanish: “Lago del Bourget”
- Swedish: “Bourgetsjön”
- Ukrainian: “Бурже (озеро)”
- Ukrainian: “Бурже”
- “Lac du Bourget”
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