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Glacières de Sylans

Les Neyrolles, France

4.5 · 1.2K reviews

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One of the Best Places To Visits in Les Neyrolles Top-rated.online cuts through the clutter, highlighting only the reviews that are most helpful, earn the most likes, or come from the most active contributors. It's … Show more

One of the Best Places To Visits in Les Neyrolles Top-rated.online cuts through the clutter, highlighting only the reviews that are most helpful, earn the most likes, or come from the most active contributors. It's our stop point from Geneva to Nantua. The scene is so magnificent! The place was old factory for ice storage during winter, but now it's abandoned now. The ruined site of a one-time prosperous and important ice harvesting and storage facility that fell out of favour and into disrepair following the invention of the refrigerator is a must-see. There are information boards in both French and English that explain the process and the history - and which detail the hard life of the workers; as well as a series of atmospheric photographs taken inside the vast building (which for safety reasons is out of bounds to visitors). Steep wooden steps and a boardwalk take you down to the lake (chosen for the job because the purity of its water meant it froze at higher temperatures) and there's a gravel track on the other side of the building accessed more easily from the car park (where there's also a dry toilet). It's free to enter. Nice place to visit! Very beautiful place if you are passing through on the highway. Completely free to visit and you get stunning views and interesting history Beautiful spot right at the exit of the highway. It seems that is the place where they used to produce ice cubes for Paris at the Time. It clearly isn't function Al today anymore. All that is left is ruins. And you can not enter inside the destroyed building. Yet you can walk down alongside of it and get to the lake where you'll find a few fishermen in little boats. Pretty cool spot. The view is amazing from down there as you are circled by the majestic mountains and you feel the vastness of the space over the lake and between the huge rocky mountains. There are also little signs here and there telling the history of the place. Really interesting place to visit with great views around into the old ice storage facility. The building is decaying in a very fascinating way, with trees growing out of the roof. The setting by lake is lovely. Nice place to stop by on a road trip There're public toilets but no place to buy food or drinks. We did not see signs for the parking lot, so we found it after a while but worth it. Nice place to stop by on a road trip There're public toilets but no place to buy food or drinks. We did not see signs for the parking lot, so we found it after a while but worth it. Nice place for a little stop, picnic Remote and quiet (apart from the highway next door), not much to do there, but nice place nonetheless. There's a possibility to walk on the ice if the winter is good enough Website change monitoring Monitor any webpage for changes – get instant email alerts when prices drop, new jobs are posted, products come back in stock, or competitors update their sites. See how the number of reviews and average review scores have changed over time.

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MondayOpen 24 hours
TuesdayOpen 24 hours
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Address
D1084, Les Neyrolles, Metropolitan France, FR
Phone
+33 4 74 12 11 57

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