Château de Miolans

The medieval château de Miolans nestles on a 250-metre sheer drop. It overlooks the town of Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny. The Miolans fortress was built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries (1475–1500), and controlled one of the access routes to the Alps. It is 200 metres long and 60 metres wide. It was one of the most important castles of Savoy. It was renamed during the Revolution the "Bastille of the Alps". The castle was considered the most perfect example of military art at the end of the fifteenth century.

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