Escapade dans la campagne Suisse

in Annemasse

31.3 km

Bike routes

Medium

Difference in height

331 m
Documentation
- GPX Trace
GPX / KML files allow you to export the trail of your hike to your GPS (or other navigation tool)

Accepted customers
- Individuals

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Points of interest

1 The Carra mill

2 Parc des Écureuils

3 Sculpture : Le clown

1 The Carra mill

The Moulin de Carra mill is a cultural and natural heritage site in Ville-la-Grand. It’s restoration has made it a lively place for meetings, education and raising awareness of sustainable development.<br/>It is difficult to date precisely the origins of the old mill, which is located below Carra, in Ville-la-Grand. It was recorded in 1637 and, in the nineteenth century, counted as one of the 13 Foron mills and among the 200 hydraulic establishments in the Geneva basin. At that time nearly 100,000 water mills provided plenty of energy that was both abundant and indefinitely renewable, along the rivers in France. Mills played an important role economically and socially. They produced basic products mechanically: ground the flour for bread, extracted oil, pressed cloth, beat iron, ground gunpowder, and chopped pulp for paper making.
Today, the Moulin de Carra, openned to the public since 2017, is a place for promoting cultural and natural heritage, environmental education and popular education, knowledge sharing, sustainable development. In this green setting on the edge of the Annemasse agglomeration and on the border with Geneva, all audiences are invited to visit this place of breathing. For children who wish to experience nature activities, the "école buissonnière"at the Moulin de Carra is a space for experimentation and wonderment linked to nature.

2 Parc des Écureuils

This beautiful, recently-built park designed by the architect Biking is located on the Foron’s bank in a natural setting. The centre of its rolling lawns is decorated with a waterfall and water jets.

3 Sculpture : Le clown

Sculpture monumentale située en centre ville près de l'église.Elle est construite en 1999 par Daniel Chassin en l’honneur du passage au siècle nouveau .<br/>Symbole de la commune qui a été le berceau de la "fédération internationale des boules ferrées". Le clown symbolise aussi des sentiments terrestres mêlant tristesse et gaieté, maquillages dissimulateurs d’émotions ou costumes porteurs de joies mordorées.