Heritage

La Gouille des Fours

Wonderful combe overlooking Sallanches, a real paradise in the heart of the Aravis. The place is unspoilt and in misty weather becomes magical... Thi...

La Pointe Percée

The Pointe Percée is the highest peak of the Aravis range and is probably the most iconic. It rises majestically to 2,742 m above sea level in the mun...

La Pierre à Voix

La Pierre à Voix is a natural limestone monolith site, which can be seen sticking out above the forest from Sallanches. Access is from the hamlet of...

Le Sapin Président

Superb coniferous tree aged 275 years old (in 2021), with remarkable measurements: it is 47 m high and has a 4.10 m circumference (in 2011). It flouri...

La Pierre Fendue

An unusual stone block, which has fallen and split, in the middle of the mountain pastures at 1380 m altitude, in the Aravis range. At the foot of th...

Le Torrent de Cœur

A pretty little mountain stream, with a natural basin, which descends as a waterfall to the Pont de la Flée, where it joins the Torrent des Fours to f...

La Montagne d'Areu

Mountain overlooking the Arve valley, located at the end of the Aravis range. The whole area forms the Pointe d'Areu, but we call the summit of the r...

La cascade des Fours

Very beautiful mountain waterfall, taking its source in the famous Gouille des Fours Lake, at the foot of the Pierre Fendue (Split rock), in the Aravi...

Chapelle des Houches

The first construction of this chapel took place in 1637 on the spot where there is a cross today; it was then rebuilt from 1832 to 1833 by local inha...

Chapelle des Maisons

The Chapelle des Maisons was built between 1954 and 1960 and was blessed in 1954 with the name Notre-Dame de l'Espérance (Our Lady of Hope), then rena...

La Croix de Fer

At 2337m altitude, this superb, tranquil site overlooks the Véran mountain pasture in the Fiz range and is part of the peaks that dominate Sallanches....

Le Cadran solaire de St Martin

Are you on time at the sundial? Located on the south façade of the church of St Martin, since its restoration in 1986, it has been keeping precise ti...