Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie consists of the small nook of France, bordering Switzerland, across Lake Geneva to the north, and Italy to the east. It is a department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.Photo: Camster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Chamonix and Annecy.
Chamonix
Chamonix is a resort in the Haute-Savoie region of France, bordering Italy, at the foot of Mont Blanc. It's regarded as the birthplace of mountaineering and as one of its capitals.
Annecy
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Annecy, in the north of the French Alps, is called "the Venice of Savoie" — 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.
Annemasse
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Annemasse is a city in the Haute-Savoie region of France, directly across the border from Geneva, Switzerland. Many of its inhabitants work in Geneva and travel home every day.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Evian and Megève.
Evian
Évian-les-Bains, or simply Évian, is a commune in Eastern France, by the Swiss border. It is located in the northern part of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Megève
Megève is a ski resort in Rhone-Alpes, in the Mont Blanc massif. It has extensive skiing and is easily reached from Geneva airport, so it's a popular package-tour destination suitable for all grades of skier.
Morzine
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Morzine is a traditional French alpine village of almost 3,000 inhabitants in Portes du Soleil, 90 km from Geneva international airport in Switzerland.
La Clusaz
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La Clusaz is a town in the French Alps. Together with the neighboring town of Grand Bornand, La Clusaz forms the center of the Aravis ski area. Different from many French ski resorts, the atmosphere of La Clusaz remains true to the alpine village.
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
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Saint-Gervais-les-Bains is an Alpine resort in the Haute-Savoie department of south-eastern France. It grew up as a spa town in the 19th century, before evolving into a ski resort.
Chatel
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Chatel is in the Haute Savoie region of France. Chatel is a picturesque ski resort at the heart of the giant Portes du Soleil region of France and Switzerland.
Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval
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Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval is classified amongst the "Most Beautiful Villages of France" with regard to its rich 9-century-old architecture. Sixt's ski area is linked with Grand Massif via the fabulous "Piste des Cascades", a 14 km blue trail from the resort of Flaine to Sixt.
Les Gets
Les Gets is a commune in the department of Haute-Savoie, in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, southeastern France. The village's first single-person chair lift was opened in 1938 with the first chair lift on Mont Chéry in 1954.
Samoëns
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Samoëns pronounced is a commune of the Haute-Savoie département in France. The town of Samoëns is in the Vallée du Giffre in the French Alps and carries the designation of a "ville fleurie", meaning its gardens and public greenery are particularly good.
Menthon St. Bernard
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Menthon-Saint-Bernard, commonly referred to simply as Menthon, is a commune on the eastern shore of Lake Annecy in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. As of 2023, the population of the commune was 1,891.
Flaine
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Flaine is in Le Grand Massif ski area in the Haute Savoie department, in the Rhône-Alpes of Southeastern France. It was designed by Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer in the 1960s, has one of Europe's fastest gondolas and is known for being an eco-friendly car-free ski resort.
Haute-Savoie
- Type: department of France with 850,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Also known as: “Upper Savoy”
- Neighbors: Aosta Valley, Savoie, Valais, and Vaud
- Location: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Haute-Savoie” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Haute-Savoie”
- Albanian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Arabic: “سافوا العليا”
- Aragonese: “Alta Saboya”
- Aragonese: “Alta Savoya”
- Armenian: “Վերին Սավոյ”
- Arpitan: “Savouè d’Amont”
- Arpitan: “Savouè-d’Amont”
- Asturian: “Alta Saboya”
- Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Savoyya”
- Basque: “Savoia Garaia”
- Belarusian: “Верхняя Савоя”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Верхняя Савоя”
- Bengali: “হাঊত সেভুয়ে”
- Breton: “Savoia-Uhel”
- Bulgarian: “От Савоа”
- Catalan: “Alta Savoia”
- Cebuano: “Haute-Savoie”
- Chechen: “Лакха Севваь”
- Chinese: “Haute-Savoie”
- Chinese: “上萨瓦省”
- Chinese: “上薩瓦省”
- Chinese: “上薩華”
- Chuvash: “Тури Савойя”
- Croatian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Czech: “Haute-Savoie”
- Czech: “Horní Savojsko”
- Danish: “Haute-Savoie”
- Dimli (individual language): “Haute-Savoie”
- Dutch: “Haute-Savoie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوت ساڤوا”
- Esperanto: “Alta Savojo”
- Esperanto: “Haute-Savoie”
- Estonian: “Haute-Savoie departemang”
- Finnish: “Haute-Savoie”
- French: “Département de la Haute-Vienne”
- French: “FR-74”
- French: “Haute-Savoie”
- Galician: “Alta Savoia”
- Georgian: “ზემო სავოია”
- German: “Département Haute-Savoie”
- German: “FR-74”
- German: “Haute-Savoie”
- German: “Hochsavoyen”
- German: “Obersavoyen”
- Greek: “Άνω Σαβοΐα”
- Gujarati: “હૌટ-સેવોઇ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sông Savoie-sén”
- Hebrew: “סבואה עילית”
- Hindi: “ओट-सेवॉइ”
- Hungarian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Indonesian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Interlingua: “Departimento de Haute-Savoie”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Haute-Savoie”
- Irish: “Haute-Savoie”
- Italian: “Alta Savoia”
- Japanese: “オート＝サヴォワ県”
- Kannada: “ಹೌಟೆ-ಸವೊಯಿ”
- Kazakh: “Жоғарғы Савойя”
- Kongo: “Haute-Savoie”
- Korean: “오트사부아주”
- Ladin: “Haute-Savoie”
- Ladino: “Haute-Savoie”
- Latin: “Sabaudia superior”
- Latin: “Sabaudia Superior”
- Latvian: “Augšsavoja”
- Limburgan: “Haute-Savoie”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinė Savoja”
- Lombard: “Haute-Savoie”
- Low German: “Haute-Savoie”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Haute-Savoie”
- Macedonian: “Горна Савоја”
- Malay: “Haute-Savoie”
- Marathi: “ऑत-साव्वा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Haute-Savoie”
- Northern Frisian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Northern Sami: “Haute-Savoie”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Haute-Savoie”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haute-Savoie”
- Norwegian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nauta Savòia”
- Ossetian: “Уæллаг Савойя”
- Pampanga: “Haute-Savoie”
- Persian: “اوت سووآ”
- Persian: “اوت-ساووآ”
- Piemontese: “Àuta Savòja”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd l’Àuta Savòja”
- Polish: “Górna Sabaudia”
- Polish: “Haute-Savoie”
- Portuguese: “Alta Saboia”
- Portuguese: “Alta Sabóia”
- Romanian: “departamentul Haute-Savoie”
- Romanian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Russian: “Верхняя Савойя”
- Scots: “Haute-Savoie”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Haute-Savoie”
- Serbian: “Горња Савоја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Sicilian: “Àuta Savoia”
- Sinhala: “හෞටේ -සැවෝයි”
- Slovak: “Haute-Savoie”
- Slovak: “Horné Savojsko”
- Slovenian: “FR-74”
- Slovenian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Slovenian: “Visoka Savoja”
- Slovenian: “Zgornja Savoja”
- Spanish: “Alta Saboya”
- Spanish: “Alta Savoya”
- Swahili: “Haute-Savoie”
- Swedish: “Haute-Savoie”
- Swiss German: “Haute-Savoie”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Савойя Верхняя”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Савойяи Боло”
- Tamil: “ஹூட்-சாவையே”
- Telugu: “హాట్-సావోయ్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโอต-ซาวัว”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Haute-Savoie”
- Turkish: “Haute-Savoie”
- Ukrainian: “Верхня Савоя”
- Urdu: “بالائی-ساووا”
- Uzbek: “Haute-Savoie”
- Venetian: “Alta Savoia”
- Vietnamese: “Haute-Savoie”
- Volapük: “Haute-Savoie”
- Waray (Philippines): “Haute-Savoie”
- Welsh: “Haute-Savoie”
- Western Frisian: “Haute-Savoie”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع اوٹ سیواۓ”
- Wu Chinese: “上萨瓦省”
- Yiddish: “אויבער-סאוואוא”
- Yoruba: “Haute-Savoie”
- Yue Chinese: “上薩華”
- “Haute-Savoie”
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