Corner games of the little gabelous

Name: Rincón juegos de los pequeñitos gabelous
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: La vieille douane

Gabelous and smugglers stop by and meet you on the shores of Lake Vonnes to give you their secrets. Games and family entertainment await you throughout the day.

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Mairie de Châtel

On the shores of Lake Vonnes, a stone’s throw from the Old Customs and the Franco-Swiss border, gabelous and smugglers stop by and give you an appointment all day long to give you their secrets. Games and family entertainment await you throughout the day.

About the location

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of salt of XVIIIESIÈCLE, up to the advent of tourism at the end of 1950s, the Old Customhouse proposes you an unpublished presentation(display) of the mountains of Chablais, where anecdote always joins big(great) history(story).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.