It’s a pleasure simply to wander aimlessly around Annecy’s medieval old town, a photogenic jumble of narrow pedestrians-only streets, crystal-clear canals – the reason Annecy is known as 'Venice of the Alps' – and colonnaded passageways.
On the tree-fringed lakefront, the flowery Jardins de l’Europe are linked to the grassy Champ de Mars , a popular picnic spot, by the poetic iron arch of the Pont des Amours (Lovers’ Bridge).
