Lake Geneva is the largest body of freshwater in Western Europe with a volume of 89 billion m3. The lake area is 582.4 km ² of which 348km ² for the 234km ² and Switzerland for France. The length of Lake Geneva is 72.3 km. From the entrance to the exit of the Rhone, the line of Shoreline development has a coastline of 95 km on the north shore and 72 km on the south shore, is 167 km of coastline.
The strategic location of Yvoire Sentinel Geneva, had not escaped the Count Amadeus V the Great (1249-1323) who undertook important works of fortifications from 1306, during the war Dauphiné-Savoie.
For half a century, the village played a very important military role which earned its people getting "franchises" in 1324. The village will come out unscathed from the wars of the Middle Ages, it will suffer from a severe attack against the part of Geneva and the French in the late sixteenth century and the castle will be burned. It will remain homeless for 350 years and the village will lose its military importance.
Miraculously valuable relics of the past substistent: Walls, doors, ditches, houses to be defended against modernity so that the dream continues ...
Magnificent floral village that makes us green with envy! 
A very cool break assessed in this particularly hot day
Church of Yvoire dedicated to St Pancras, probably dates from the eleventh century.
The current bell tower built between 1856 and 1858 belongs to the lineage of bulbous towers that characterize the tilt religious architecture from the late nineteenth century.
The tour ends and it is a real favorite!!
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