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September 2022
Saturday 17
10:00 - 12:00
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Sunday 18
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La vieille douane

1277, route de Vonnes, 74390 Châtel, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • Haute-Savoie
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Everything to declare! … from the customs office to the contraband museum

The Old Customs has many surprises in store for you, as well as a brand new temporary exhibition for a retrospective of the history of the building and the brigade that occupied these premises!
17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Lambert Meyer - Val Média

Temporary exhibition “Everything to declare! … from the customs office to the contraband museum”
From its construction in the 1920s until the departure of the last gabelous in 2009 then the first visits of the interpretation center, things happened at the customs of Châtel! For the tenth anniversary of its opening, the Old Customs has many surprises in store for you, as well as a new temporary exhibition for a retrospective of the history of the building and the brigade that occupied these premises!

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La vieille douane
1277, route de Vonnes, 74390 Châtel, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • Haute-Savoie
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Done up in the old(former) office(desk) of customhouses of Châtel, this centre of interpretation(performance) is interested in smuggling(contraband) in the French-Swiss mountains of Chablais. He(It) highlights the adventures of an in the past inseparable binomial of border: the customs officer and the smuggler. Since the underground importation of salt of XVIIIESIÈCLE, up to the advent of tourism at the end of 1950s, the Old Customhouse proposes you an unpublished presentation(display) of the mountains of Chablais, where anecdote always joins big(great) history(story). Every year, a temporary exhibition(exposure) is interested, in addition to the permanent route(course), in an other shutter(component) of history(story) of the customhouse or of smuggling(contraband). In 2015, exhibition(exposure) "secrets of the still" invites in the den of an underground bouilleur to discover the history(story) of distillation and traditional manufacturing of brandies of mountain.
Tags
Musée, salle d'exposition, Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire
® Lambert Meyer / Val Média