Mont Blanc Culturals sites

Culturals sites to discover from Combloux, Pearl of Mont Blanc, France, French ski resort, 4km from Megeve and 30km from Chamonix

Megeve- (4 km)

Haut-Val d'Arly museum (popular art and traditions) - Le calvaire (vaults and stations of the "way of the cross") - "Le vieux village" - "La maison Le Même" - "Le lavoir rue d'Arly" - Pierre Magara's statue - Roman stone at the Jaillet pass

Sallanches - (8 km)

Moutain Nature introduction center - Sardinian town built upon Architect Justin plan - Ancient washtubs and fountains - Arpenaz waterfall

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La Porte d'Eau

• Overview
• Rates/Opening
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• Location
• Contact

Overview

"La Porte d'Eau": Agostin Cardenas 1973 This totemic anthropomorphic couple in wood from Iroko or African teak, create in our forest a place to celebrate the main sources of life: water and women. The Cuban, Cardenas (1927-2001), developed a formal personnel language that distinguishes the simplification of volume, the influence of surrealism and that of African art.

Rates et Opening

Rates :

Free for individual visitors.
Fee paying when you discover the contemporary sculptures in Passy in the company of a local heritage guide.

Opening :

Accessible all year round.

Photo Album

Location

Contact

Mairie de Passy

Address :
Promenade Marie Curie
Plateau d'Assy
Passy - 74190

Tél. : 04 50 58 80 52

E-mail : info@passy-mont-blanc.com

Site 1 : http://www.passy-mont-blanc.com

Passy - (17 km)

Notre Dame de Toute Grâce : Contemporary church located on Assy Plateau with Leger mosaics, Lurçat tapestry, Matisse et Chagall pottery... - Nature reserve - The Green lake-
culture road

Servoz - (18 km)

House of the high moutain pasture - The old village with its oratoire and bread ovens - Diosaz Gorges - St Bernard breeding.

Les Houches (25 km)

The Moutain museum - The Alps fauna museum - Merlet park - Sainte Marie viaduct - The Christ Roi - The piste Verte -

Chamonix - (30 km)

Alps Museum - The Tour village - J.Balmat birth house - Monuments in memory of De Saussure, Balmat et Paccard - Cimeteries of Biollet and Argentière where lies numerous guides

Vallorcine - (40km)

Barberine village with its waterfall and its museum - aiguilles rouges natural park at Montets pass - Emosson dam and dinosaurs marks -

Saint - Gervais - (10km)

The Termal bathes - Bionnassay ecological museum - Beginning of century great holels - The devil's bridge - Cupelin's vault - Countess Fortified Houses - village history - Village history

Les Contamines Montjoie (20km)

Notre Dame de la Gorge site - the Roman way - its Nature reserve - The baroque church

Cordon (8km)

Notre Dame de l'Assomption : baroque church

Praz/Arly (8km)

Oratory "bonne fontaine"