Old Customs is recruiting!

Name: ¡La vieja aduana está reclutando!
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: La vieille douane

The customs officer retires, so the Old Customs recruits! We count on you to respond to the recruitment! But don’t count on him to entrust the brigade to anyone!

Sábado 17 septiembre 2022, 14:00, 16:00Passed

Herramientas de registro

04 50 73 22 44

Lambert Meyer Val Média

Since the opening of the Châtel brigade in the 1920s, we have not counted the customs officers who have followed each other to watch the Franco-Swiss summits. But today the succession looks difficult, the customs officer retires, then the Old Customs recruits! We are counting on you to respond to the recruitment! Nostalgic, the last gabelou will not fail to share his anecdotes and his funny and unusual stories about the history of the border. Pig, sausage, cheese... it’s all over! But to train new customs officers capable of fulfilling their mission, nothing beats practice to put you to the test! But do not count on him to entrust the brigade to anyone: he reserves some challenges for you to test your abilities! Challenges and games await you to test your skills! Will you get your customs rank?

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of salt of XVIIIESIÈCLE, up to the advent of tourism at the end of 1950s, the Old Customhouse proposes you an unpublished presentation(display) of the mountains of Chablais, where anecdote always joins big(great) history(story).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