Lake Annecy travel guide
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Visit Lake Annecy: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Lake Annecy is situated in the Haute-Savoie department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the east of France at 1 km from Annecy, the department capital. (General information: Lake Annecy is 435 km from Paris and 644 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Lake Annecy (page also includes a photo gallery for Lake Annecy)
Popular places to visit near Lake Annecy: these include Annecy at 1 km and Veyrier du Lac at 3 km.
Annecy is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 1km and Gorges du Fier is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 8km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Lake Annecy, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Lake Annecy
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Lake Annecy.
Note that all distances from Lake Annecy shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Lake Annecy holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Lake Annecy (from booking.com and with a great selection of hotels and a best price promise).
For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in Rhone-Alpes and Haute-Savoie gites and villas
Tourist attractions nearby
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Lake Annecy and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins du Prieuré (36km) :
- National Monuments: Voltaire Chateau (40km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Annecy (1km) : Aix-les-Bains (29km) : Megeve (37km) : Nances (44km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Albertville (32km) : Chambery (40km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: La Roche-sur-Foron (23km) : Sallanches (38km) :
Map of places to visit near Lake Annecy & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Lac d'Annecy
Canton: na
Arrondissement: na
Department: Haute-Savoie
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: na
Distance to Lake Annecy
from Annecy: 1 km
from Paris: 435 km
from Calais: 644 km
from Nice: 260 km
from Bordeaux: 538 km
from Strasbourg: 322 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 14 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Lake Annecy): Annecy, Annecy-le-Vieux, Argonay, Cran-Gevrier, Epagny, Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Metz-Tessy, Meythet, Naves-Parmelan, Pringy, Sevrier, Seynod, Veyrier-du-Lac and Villaz.
Getting here
For driving distances to Lake Annecy from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Lake Annecy