{"id":1012,"date":"2026-06-07T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/item\/lac-du-bourget\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:04:10","slug":"lac-du-bourget","status":"publish","type":"citadela-item","link":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/item\/lac-du-bourget\/","title":{"rendered":"Lac du Bourget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:1.15em;line-height:1.6;color:#3a352f;\">Lac du Bourget near Aix-les-Bains is the largest natural lake lying entirely in France. The glacial lake inspired the poet Lamartine to his famous poem Le Lac. On the western shore stands the Hautecombe Abbey, the burial place of the House of Savoy, reachable from the water.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Largest natural lake entirely in France<\/li>\n<li>Hautecombe Abbey on the west shore<\/li>\n<li>Spa town Aix-les-Bains with thermal baths<\/li>\n<li>Boat trips and bathing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<table class=\"at-vergleich\" style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Size<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">largest natural lake entirely in France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Formation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">glacial (ice-age)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Culture<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Lamartine's poem Le Lac, Hautecombe Abbey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Location<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Aix-les-Bains \/ Chamb\u00e9ry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Practical info<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f3f1ec;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 20px;\">\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Getting there:<\/strong> By train to Aix-les-Bains or Chamb\u00e9ry; by car via the A41\/A43.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Best time:<\/strong> Bathing June to September; spa and boat trips year-round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Cost:<\/strong> Shore free; boat service and thermal baths payable (please verify).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Safety:<\/strong> Large lake, mind wind and boat traffic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:12px 0 4px;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;\">\n<li>Visit Hautecombe Abbey by boat<\/li>\n<li>Aix-les-Bains offers thermal baths for relaxation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Background &amp; History<\/h2>\n<p>Lake Bourget is the largest natural lake lying entirely on French soil, an elongated, glacier-formed basin stretching between steep mountain flanks in Savoy. It gained fame above all through Romantic poetry: the writer Alphonse de Lamartine dedicated to it in the early 19th century his poem \u201cLe Lac\u201d, in which he sang of the transience of time and of love, and since then the body of water has been regarded as one of the most literary lakes in France.<\/p>\n<p>On its eastern shore lies the venerable Hautecombe Abbey, the burial place of the House of Savoy, in which the princes of this lineage were laid to rest over centuries, a quiet place of history that unfolds its full effect only from the water. The nearby spa town of Aix-les-Bains flourished as early as Roman times thanks to its hot springs and became in the 19th century a fashionable meeting place of European society, where nobility and artists met for their summer retreat. Across the lake also passes regularly a diverse bird world, which uses the protected shore as a resting place. Thus Lake Bourget combines the cool beauty of an Alpine lake with a dense layer of poetry, piety and bathing culture, which makes it significant far beyond its scenic splendour.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#221c1a;color:#fff;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 22px;margin-top:28px;\"><strong style=\"font-size:1.08em;\">Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0 12px;color:#d8d2cc;font-size:14px;\">To make your trip run smoothly , our guides and gear tips for this destination:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;\"><a href=\"\/en\/mit-hund-in-den-alpen\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">With your dog in the Alps \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/hunde-ausruestung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Dog gear \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/packliste-tages-bergwanderung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Day-tour packing list \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der Lac du Bourget bei Aix-les-Bains ist der gr\u00f6\u00dfte nat\u00fcrliche See, der vollst\u00e4ndig in Frankreich liegt. Der eiszeitlich entstandene See inspirierte den Dichter Lamartine zu seinem ber\u00fchmten Gedicht Le Lac. Am Westufer thront die Abtei Hautecombe, die Grablege des Hauses Savoyen, vom Wasser aus erreichbar. Highlights Gr\u00f6\u00dfter nat\u00fcrlicher See ganz in Frankreich Abtei Hautecombe am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1045,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","citadela-item-category":[39,75,36],"citadela-item-location":[72],"class_list":["post-1012","citadela-item","type-citadela-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","citadela-item-category-ausflugsziele-sehenswuerdigkeiten","citadela-item-category-hundefreundlich","citadela-item-category-seen-baden","citadela-item-location-savoyen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citadela-item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1012\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-category?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-location?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}