The best MTB trails around Saint-Laurent

nice little castle with pond

Bridge in Bonneville.

Crossing the Col du Freux is horrendous. The path leading to the hamlet of Sambuis is very steep, requiring pushing or even portaging for 600 meters.

Be careful on the Col du Freu mountain bike, it's very complicated.

Pretty church that is worth a look.

The structure is an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge made of pre-stressed concrete, approximately 75 metres long. The pylon inclined at 15° to the vertical has the shape of an inverted V; the deck crosses this pylon without resting on it.

The bridge is an element of the birth of the city, built from 1225. It was initially made of wood resting on the islands of the Arve to connect the two banks. In 1661, the Regent Marie-Jeanne-Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours had a stone bridge with five arches built. Between 1862 and 1866, it was replaced by the current bridge, built by the engineers Deglin and Vivenot. It was named "Pont de l'Europe" when Valérie Giscard d'Estaing passed through Bonneville in 1989, during the campaign for the European elections. Downstream, it was doubled in 2010 by a second asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge whose elegant silhouette is already part of Bonneville's architectural heritage.

The Charles-Félix Column is a commemorative column erected in Bonneville (Haute-Savoie), France1, in honor of Charles-Félix of Savoy, on the occasion of his work to dam the Arve Until the 19th century, the Arve regularly caused significant damage during its floods, flooding fields, villages and towns in the Arve Valley. During his visit to the region, King Charles-Félix of Savoy decided to grant a subsidy of 60,000 pounds to carry out damming work to protect Bonneville and the middle Arve Valley2,3. On this occasion, a wooden column was erected in August 1824 by the inhabitants of the valley in thanks for this work. It was replaced two years later by the current column and inaugurated in July 18264. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1942 The column, 21.44 m high, rests on a pedestal and is topped by a statue. The column is supposed to highlight the traditional functions of the sovereign2. It is haughty and kept at a distance because of its height but also enhances the paternalistic role of the sovereign by being built near the dikes. The 3 m high statue depicts the "beloved Charles-Félix". It is made of Carrara marble by the Cacciatori brothers, who were behind the restoration of the Hautecombe Abbey The column and the statue rest on a pedestal decorated with a bas-relief. The latter represents the goddess Arve personified in the form of a nymph chained and dressed in the antique style, half-lying in the reeds2. The other sides bear Latin inscriptions explaining its purpose: "Arvam agros effuse vastantem Rex Karolus Felix descripto alveo oppositis aggeribus corecuit. Anno MDCCCXXIIII [...]" which translates to: The Arve, with its floods, devastated the countryside. King Charles Felix contained it in a dammed bed, in the year 1824. [...]4 The original bas-relief is preserved and exhibited at the Bonneville town hall2. It was replaced by a copy made in blue marble by Béatrice Sassone Bouvet in 2012