Pastimes and leisure activities

Let yourself be surprised by the wine and cheese pairings, a pleasant way to immerse yourself in the Savoyard terroir.

Every Wednesday afternoon, come to Abondance Abbey for a breath of fresh air, and enjoy the many games available in the garden.

With Emilie from the CC-PEVA Environment Department, discover the unsuspected lives of amphibians and dragonflies in their natural habitat. Games and observation on the program! Organized as part of the Blue Flag program.

Fireworks and torchlight walk with ESF instructors. Wine and hot chocolate offered at all.

Deposit ONLY on: Tuesday April 30, 2-6pm and Friday May 3, 10am-1pm and 2-6pm. Family games with the Ludothèque à roulettes.

The people of Abondance are in shock! A precious symbol of their heritage has just been stolen. Your mission: to find this symbolic document by travelling around Abondance and stop the wretched thieves. Are you up to the challenge?

The Fabulous Village or the Legend of the Flottins, delights Evian during the Christmas period. Based on a fairy tale, a unique atmosphere is created in the town centre with a village built in driftwood, monumental sculptures and goblins.

This sporting event, friendly and supportive, is unique because the time limit is replaced by a team challenge! Courses for all levels: from 7 km to 30 km, with a novelty this year, an intermediate challenge of 10 km, joëlette course possible.

Every year the national day ends beautifully with a firework display from a barge on Lake Geneva. The town's lights are extinguished to give pride of place to the magic of the pyrotechnical colours in the Evian sky.

The farmers of Chatel invite you to attend the Châtel municipal agricultural competition.

A short stroll along the resort's paths (your four-legged friends are welcome).

Multi-sport workshop based on soccer and badminton, open to all. Come and have fun!

Through 5 different open-air workshops at Plaine Dranse, your little ones will plunge into the mountain world using their senses!

With Pascale from the MANED association, build pretty bird feeders from driftwood or recycled materials. Organized as part of the Pavillon Bleu label.

This year, the Savoie Cheese Road celebrates its 20th anniversary! As a partner site, the Maison du Fromage Abondance is offering a wide range of events based around the 8 PDO-IGP cheeses of Savoie during the European Heritage Days.

A visit or a treasure hunt combined with an artistic practice workshop, an original way to discover the Abbey of Abondance!

Take a stroll through Amphion's grounds and observe the landscapes painted by the British painter. After discovering his work, pick up your brushes and create your own watercolor.

Special story time: reading apron.

Family games.

Enjoy all the subtleties of Abondance cheese during the Journées du Patrimoine de Pays et des Moulins. Sweet and savoury combinations, jams, spices and cheese: all your senses will be awakened!

Mountain bike ride open to everyone: family, beginner, expert

For more than 20 years, the Journées du Patrimoine de Pays (Local Heritage Days) have been promoting this heritage and trying to give people a different view of it, to raise awareness of its richness.

Guided by Guillaume from "Nature en Conscience", discover wild mountain plants (20-minute walk suitable for all ages) and their culinary and medicinal uses. Followed by a tasting of farm produce and local plants.

From the milking to the plate, what are the secrets of the transformation of milk into cheese? Become apprentice cheese makers during this workshop, and leave with your own cheese... to taste! For children aged 6 to 12 years old.

To celebrate bastille day a big fire works on music is organised followed by a dance at the church square.

Discover new recipes based on PDO-IGP cheeses from Savoie with Anne-Claude, dietician-spicer, and have fun with the wooden games of the past. An afternoon under the sign of greed!

Test your senses with the food truck of the Savoy Cheese Route and have fun with the wooden games of the past. A gourmet afternoon under the sign of Savoy cheeses!

Discover the traditional float parade and fair. Concert by the wind band at 12pm. At 3pm: float parade. Catering for lunch and dinner.

Discover a selection of craft beers from Brasserie 744! Share a moment of conviviality around their tasting and exchange lots of advice with the brewery's sales manager, present for the occasion.

A meditative tour combining landscape reading and the Champeillant chapel with gentle exercise and yoga. Breathe, meditate and learn more about your territory.

Come unlock the mysteries of the Abbey with our Escape Game "AT THE MERCY OF THE WORKS". Try to be the fastest team to win the competition for the best investigators, organised during the Journées du Patrimoine de Pays et des Moulins.

A genuine gastronomic feast showcasing products from the Chablais region in France, Switzerland and the two Savoies, with special guest chef Danny Khezzar, 2023 finalist in the famous TOP CHEF TV show broadcast on M6.

The farmers of Chatel invite you to attend the Châtel municipal agricultural competition.

Join us this weekend for the Salon International de la Race et du Fromage Abondance and the Foire d'Automne: Abondance PDO cow and cheese competition. Musical entertainment, numerous exhibitors. New: battle of the Herens cow queens.

Have a great time with traditional giant wooden games: Power 4, Japanese billiards and more.

Come to Abondance Abbey for a gourmet experience combining nature, history and know-how. From medieval gardens to modern-day practices, let yourself be enchanted by the flavours of our land.

Discover the village's treasures while you rack your brains and, above all, have fun!

For this 5th edition, the Festiléman grows to open even more to the life of all the actors of Lake Geneva. Thus, 7 spaces (or villages) will be open with more than 100 exhibition stands.

See you in the village center! Concert by l'Harmonie d'Abondance followed by fireworks. Program to follow.

As the Paris Olympics draw nearer, we'd like to introduce you to a number of sports, keeping in mind that "the important thing is to take part".