About fifty inhabitants rename the Pont des Amours d’Annecy in “Pont du Démour” to denounce the surcontarism


Annecy is in sixth place in the top 10 dream destinations of the French for the summer holidays, according to an Elabe survey for here and La Tribune on Sunday, published on Sunday.

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The demonstrators have placed themselves on the Pont des Amours d'Annecy to rename it, July 6, 2025. (Leopold Picot / Radio France)

The demonstrators placed themselves on the Amours de Annecy bridge to rename it, July 6, 2025. (Léopold Picot / Radio France)

About fifty inhabitants of Annecy (Haute-Savoie) symbolically renamed the Pont des Amours in “Pont du Démour”, Sunday July 6, Indicates here Pays de Savoie (ex-France Bleu). They want to denounce surcontarism in the prefecture of Haute-Savoie. This bridge, located not far from Lake Annecy, is known to be popular with tourists passing through the city.

“Overcurrent seriously harms the inhabitants”Can we read on a banner deployed in the streets of Annecy by the inhabitants. “Life in the old town has become impossible with noise pollution, deplorable hygiene. We are an outlet of the city, there is a dense, uninhibited crowd, which does not realize that there are inhabitants”Indicates a protester in the Pays de Savoie.

Another demonstrator, Pascal, has a solution to try to curb surtourism: “It would be necessary to charge a tax for tourists for a day, to stop promoting the city, which no longer needs it, and to develop a new tourism, more sober, on a human scale.”

Annecy is in sixth place in the top 10 dream destinations of the French for the summer holidays, according to an Elabe survey for here and La Tribune on Sunday, published on Sunday. The city is “Particularly popular with 18-34 year olds”Indicates the survey.



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