Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Haute-Savoie
Arrondissement of Annecy

Annecy

Annecy, in the north of the , is called "the of " — a well-deserved title. The medieval town centre built around a 14th-century chateau is dissected by small canals and streams running out of Lac Annecy, which is clean, fresh and a wonderful azure colour.
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  • Type: City with 132,000 residents
  • Description: commune in Haute-Savoie, France
  • Postal codes: 74000 and 74000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Château d’Annecy and Palais de l’Isle.

Castle
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The Château d'Annecy is a restored castle which dominates the old French town of Annecy in the département. It was bought by the town, restored and transformed into a museum, le musée-château d'Annecy.

Castle
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is a castle.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic church located in Annecy, . The cathedral is a national monument. The church was erected at the beginning of the 16th century by Jacques Rossel as a chapel for a Franciscan priory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Annecy-le-Vieux and Cran-Gevrier.

Town
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was a former commune in the department in the region in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it merged into the commune of Annecy.

Town
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is a former commune in the department in the region in south-eastern . On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Annecy.

Town
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is a former commune in the department in the region in south-eastern . On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Annecy. The inhabitants of are called Seynodiens.

Annecy

Latitude
45.8992° or 45° 53′ 57″ north
Longitude
6.1289° or 6° 7′ 44″ east
Population
132,000
Elevation
452 metres (1,483 feet)
IATA airport code
NCY
United Nations Location Code
FR NCY
Open location code
8FQ8V4XH+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26692465
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3037543
Wiki­data ID
Q50189
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Annecy” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Annecy”
  • Albanian: “Annecy”
  • Arabic: “آنسي”
  • Arabic: “آنيسي”
  • Arabic: “أنسي”
  • Arabic: “أنيسي”
  • Aragonese: “Annecy”
  • Armenian: “Անսի”
  • Arpitan: “Èneci”
  • Asturian: “Annecy”
  • Azerbaijani: “Annesi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ansi”
  • Bambara: “Annecy”
  • Bashkir: “Анси”
  • Basque: “Annecy”
  • Bavarian: “Annecy”
  • Belarusian: “Анесі”
  • Belarusian: “Ансі”
  • Bengali: “আনসি”
  • Breton: “Annecy”
  • Bulgarian: “Анси”
  • Cajun French: “Annecy”
  • Catalan: “Annecy”
  • Cebuano: “Annecy”
  • Chechen: “Анси”
  • Chinese: “安錫”
  • Chinese: “阿訥西”
  • Chinese: “阿讷西”
  • Chuvash: “Анси”
  • Corsican: “Annecy”
  • Croatian: “Annecy”
  • Czech: “Annecy”
  • Danish: “Annecy”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Annecy”
  • Dutch: “Annecy”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آنسى”
  • Esperanto: “Annecy”
  • Estonian: “Annecy”
  • Extremaduran: “Annecy”
  • Faroese: “Annecy”
  • Finnish: “Annecy”
  • French: “Annecy”
  • French: “la Venise des Alpes”
  • French: “la Venise savoyarde”
  • Friulian: “Annecy”
  • Galician: “Annecy”
  • Georgian: “ანესი”
  • Georgian: “ანსი”
  • German: “Annecy”
  • Greek: “Ανεσύ”
  • Greek: “Αννεσύ”
  • Gujarati: “એન્નેસી”
  • Hebrew: “אנסי”
  • Hindi: “अन्नेसी”
  • Hungarian: “Annecy”
  • Icelandic: “Annecy”
  • Ido: “Annecy”
  • Indonesian: “Annecy”
  • Interlingua: “Annecy”
  • Interlingue: “Annecy”
  • Irish: “Annecy”
  • Italian: “Annecy”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Annecy”
  • Japanese: “アヌシー”
  • Kabyle: “Annecy”
  • Kalaallisut: “Annecy”
  • Kannada: “ಅನ್ನೆಸಿ”
  • Kongo: “Annecy”
  • Korean: “안시”
  • Kurdish: “Annecy”
  • Ladin: “Annecy”
  • Latin: “Annecium”
  • Latvian: “Ansī”
  • Ligurian: “Annecy”
  • Limburgan: “Annecy”
  • Lithuanian: “Ansi”
  • Lombard: “Annecy”
  • Low German: “Annecy”
  • Luxembourgish: “Annecy”
  • Macedonian: “Анси”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Annecy”
  • Malagasy: “Annecy”
  • Malay: “Annecy”
  • Marathi: “अॅनसी”
  • Mazanderani: “انوسی”
  • Minangkabau: “Annecy”
  • Moksha: “Анси”
  • Narom: “Annecy”
  • Neapolitan: “Annecy”
  • Northern Frisian: “Annecy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Annecy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Annecy”
  • Norwegian: “Annecy”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Anecí”
  • Ossetian: “Анси”
  • Papiamento: “Annecy”
  • Persian: “انسی”
  • Persian: “انوسی”
  • Picard: “Annecy”
  • Piemontese: “Annecy”
  • Polish: “Annecy”
  • Portuguese: “Annecy”
  • Prussian: “Annecy”
  • Romagnol: “Annecy”
  • Romanian: “Annecy”
  • Romansh: “Annecy”
  • Russian: “Анси”
  • Sardinian: “Annecy”
  • Scots: “Annecy”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Annecy”
  • Serbian: “Annecy”
  • Serbian: “Анси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Annecy”
  • Sicilian: “Annecy”
  • Silesian: “Annecy”
  • Sinhala: “ඇනසි”
  • Slovak: “Annecy”
  • Slovenian: “Annecy”
  • South Azerbaijani: “انسی”
  • Spanish: “Annecy”
  • Swahili: “Annecy”
  • Swedish: “Annecy”
  • Swiss German: “Annecy”
  • Tamil: “என்னசி”
  • Tatar: “Анси”
  • Telugu: “అన్నెసీ”
  • Thai: “อานซี”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Annecy”
  • Turkish: “Annecy”
  • Twi: “Annecy”
  • Ukrainian: “Аннесі”
  • Ukrainian: “Ансі”
  • Urdu: “انسی”
  • Uzbek: “Annecy”
  • Venetian: “Annecy”
  • Vietnamese: “Annecy”
  • Vlaams: “Annecy”
  • Volapük: “Annecy”
  • Walloon: “Annecy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Annecy”
  • Welsh: “Annecy”
  • Wolof: “Annecy”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿讷西”
  • Yiddish: “אנעסי”
  • Yue Chinese: “安錫”
  • Zulu: “Annecy”
  • “Annecy”

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