Château du Reposoir, Château in Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland

Château du Reposoir is a square, modestly proportioned country house built in 1755 in Pregny-Chambésy, with five windows on its facade. It stands on a terrace above a French-style garden facing Lake Geneva, and to the south opens onto a water feature and a long avenue of chestnut trees. The 80,804 m² estate slopes gently up to the house.

The estate, first mentioned in the 16th century as La Terre de Pregny, belonged to Madeleine, widow of Humbert Pucetti, and stretched from Sécheron to the Vengeron. Guillaume du Puys, a burgher of Geneva, bought it on 7 March 1534; it stayed with the du Puys family for four generations before passing to the Pictet family in 1659. In 1755 Jacques III Pictet-Thellusson had the old dwelling demolished and built the present square château with five windows on its façade. His son Isaac IV Pictet-Lullin added two wings between 1787 and 1790, with interiors by Jean Jaquet.

The estate once housed a wealthy family and reflects their tastes and way of life in the region. The rooms and grounds show how nobility spent their time and expressed their status through their surroundings.

The estate sits in a quiet area of Pregny-Chambésy and can be reached by local pathways. Since this is a private historical site, it is important to check access rules before planning a visit.

The name Reposoir comes from a bench of two stacked planks by the lakeside road to Lausanne, where women carrying baskets on their heads stopped to rest before market. The name only appeared in the early 19th century and first designated just that lakeside plot.