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Villa du Châtelet

Opening period

From 01/11/2025 to 31/03/2026 on Thursday, Friday and weekends between 2.30 pm and 6 pm.

Last visit at 17:00

Closed during the second and third week of january.

Closed on easter sunday and monday, on the 25th od december and 1st of january.

From 01/04 to 31/10/2026 on Thursday, Friday and weekends between 2.30 pm and 6.30 pm.

Last visit at 17:30

Closed on easter sunday and monday, on the 25th od december and 1st of january.

Language(s) spoken: German, English, Spanish, French

Rates

Full price: 8 €

Teenager: 4 €

Child: 2 €

Person with a disability: 4 €.

Accessible for wheelchairs with assistance

Reserved space 330 cm wide < 100 m from the site

Minimum aisle width of 90 cm

WC + grab handle + adequate space to move

Site, building totally accessible

Possibility of drop-off in front of the site

Incline >5% but reasonable

Presence of pictograms and / or simplified visuals

Obstacle-free access inside

Built around 1900 for Charles Taillefer, legal counsel to the French Embassy in

London, then integrated to the Châtelet thermal baths, this large villa with a turret

looks like a small castle.

It is accessed via a monumental portico-promenade which surmounts vast cellars and basements using the natural slope of the land. The facade is punctuated by balconies, columns with ornate capitals and wide bays overlooking Lake Geneva. A testimony to the art of living of the Belle Epoque, the Villa du Châtelet was recently renovated by its owners with respect for the distribution of the rooms and the original interior decoration (colored stained-glass windows, Hungarian-point parquet flooring) and then made available to the town of Evian. Today it is promoted by the association "Les Amis de la Villa du Châtelet - Cercle culturel lémanique" which presents two permanent exhibitions and offers a space for conviviality and cultural encounters.