Château de la Cour, Medieval castle in Annecy-le-Vieux, France.

Château de la Cour is a castle in Annecy-le-Vieux, Haute-Savoie, set on a slope with a view over Lake Annecy and surrounded by the large trees of a park. Its pale facade, built by Jean-Baptiste de Menthon in the early 18th century, has a row of windows across the middle and a central opening. The roof is hipped and steep, covered in greyish-brown tiles, with four small chimneys along the ridge and two dormer windows on the front slope. In the early 20th century the Guigné family added a central avant-corps topped by a four-sided roof framed by two medieval-style échauguettes, and built a large square tower of medieval appearance on the west side.

The castle first appears in records in the early 1400s as the property of the La Balme family, a branch of the powerful local Menthon clan. It remained in aristocratic hands over centuries, passing through various owning families.

The Menthon-La Balme branch kept a chapel at La Cour dedicated to Saint Bernard of Menthon, and before 1602 founded a chapel dedicated to Saint Sebastian in the church of Saint-Laurent in Annecy-le-Vieux, which held the family tomb. Their coat of arms, a silver lion on red with a blue band, carried a silver shell on the band.

The castle sits within a tree-filled park overlooking Lake Annecy and is easy to spot from outside the grounds. Since it remains a private property, visitors cannot enter the interior spaces but can view the exterior structures and walk around the park.

Anne de Guigné, born at the château on 25 April 1911, died in 1922 at the age of eleven and was declared venerable by Pope John Paul II on 3 March 1990; she lies buried in the cemetery of Annecy-le-Vieux. Her family, the de Guigné, had bought the estate in 1898 and remodelled it, adding the central avant-corps with its four-sided roof and the square tower on the west side.