# Montreux

> Swiss Riviera · CHILLON 1150 · LAKE GENEVA

The Chateau de Chillon appears in a charter of 1150, on a rock in Lake Geneva a short way along the shore. The Bureau files the town under lake stations. The castle was drawing more than a hundred thousand visitors a year by 1939, which the register notes as the earliest figure it holds rather than the highest. It stands on rock, in water, at the foot of a road that has carried traffic since before the charter. The Bureau considers the position well chosen and says so rarely.

## Sourced figures

- **chillon**: 1150, first mentioned in a charter of Humbert III — source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateau_de_Chillon (consulted 13/08/2026)
- **visitors**: 100 000, over 100,000 visitors a year by 1939 — source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateau_de_Chillon (consulted 25/09/2026)

## Reference image

- print: Chillon & Dent du Midi
- by: Photoglob Co.
- held by: Library of Congress, Photochrom Print Collection
- licence: Public domain
- file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chillon_&_Dent_du_Midi_LCCN2017650169.jpg

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