rear its size, its charm, its memories, Ripaille is one of the most beautiful sites of the area. With the Middle Ages semi-nun of the Duke of Savoy reprocesses, Amédée VIII, with 17th and 18th centuries brood Carthusian monk, protected from the century by the high wall which surrounds it still today, in 1900 property of a large industrialist-esthète, Ripaille is since always a place where resident and visitors come ressourcer in its calm and its beauty and to be restored trepidations and worry of the world.

'extending on 120 hectares at the edge of Léman, Ripaille is not worth only by its architecture and its history, related to the most brilliant periods of the Savoyard past, but also by its nature - in particular its forests - and its wine.

Louis and Paule Necker


ujourd' today Ripaille is still mainly a private field. However each Fifty ' 000 people penetrate in its walls, for guided visits, seminars, marriages, exposures and other cultural events, walks in wood, the purchase of wine or to lunch in its restaurant.

E Castle with the four turns was given in 1976 to the Foundation Feast, the purpose of which is to preserve this monument, to develop it and to make of it a place of promotion of a better relation between the Man and his environment.

Introduction History Foundation Feast Wine Forests cuturelles Demonstrations remarkable Site of the taste Visits, hirings Bonds