Lac Leman's secret garden: Yvoire, a quaint medieval town on the French-Swiss border, is best known as a magnet for busloads of tourists. But it holds a hidden treasure--a garden that is a feast for the five senses.

Swiss News › Nbr. 2002, June 2002

Author: Mangold-Vine, Gail

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Lac Leman's secret garden: Yvoire, a quaint medieval town on the French-Swiss border, is best known as a magnet for busloads of tourists. But it holds a hidden treasure--a garden that is a feast for the five senses.

Yvoire has a reputation--perhaps somewhat deserved--as one of France's premiere tourist traps. True enough, every year some 800,000 visitors swarm in to see its castle, ramparts and fortified gates; the old port on Lac Leman with its herons, swans and mallard ducks paddling peacefully in the water; its palm trees; and its f...

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