Annecy – A picture perfect town in the French Alps
Wedged between the mountains of Haute Savoie, France, just 35 miles south of Geneva, is an enchanting turquoise blue body of water, known today as the ‘cleanest lake in Europe.’ It wasn’t always this way. In the 1950s Lake Annecy was so polluted that city officials considered condemning it as unhealthy. Instead, they put in place some of the strictest environmental rules in Europe as well as strategies to protect the region’s natural and historic treasures. Sixty years later, Lake…