Château de Clermont, Haute-Savoie, Renaissance castle in Clermont, France

Château de Clermont is a Renaissance castle perched on a hilltop in Haute-Savoie, characterized by large windows and arcaded galleries encircling a central courtyard. The structure displays the refined proportions and careful spatial organization typical of its architectural period.

After the Regard family became chatelains of Clermont following Savoy's 1401 acquisition of the County of Geneva, Duke Emmanuel-Philibert authorised Gallois de Regard on 2 November 1576 to build a new castle as his summer residence. Construction on the western slope began in 1578 using stones from the old castle and ended with Gallois's death at Annecy in 1582. In the castle chapel he gave the tonsure to the future Saint Francis de Sales in 1578.

The castle is also called château de Regard, after the family that held the post of châtelain of Clermont from 1401, when the House of Savoy acquired the county of Geneva. In 1578 Gallois de Regard gave the tonsure in the castle chapel to the future saint François de Sales. From April to October the courtyard hosts concerts and shows.

The castle is open to visitors from 1 April to 31 October, when it hosts exhibitions and guided tours on daily life in the period; the cour d'honneur also stages concerts and shows. Outside that season there is no visiting. The building stands on the western slope of the Molard, below the site of the vanished comtal castle.

In 1578, in the castle chapel, Gallois de Regard conferred the tonsure on the future saint Francis de Sales. The building was finished only at his death in 1582 in Annecy, and his nephew inherited it, founding the Regard de Vans, Morgenex, Disonche and Villeneuve lines.